VacationSelector

Brasov or Rotterdam?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Brasov
39
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BrasovRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
BrasovRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance280 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
BrasovRotterdam
Score3572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1446
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 22 points.22
BrasovRotterdam
Score3860
Museums within 10 km1541
Museums within 2 km of centre1320
Share of museums within 2 km %8749
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 19 points.19
BrasovRotterdam
Score3049
Drinking venues within 4 km223542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7670
Nightclubs within 4 km1440
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
BrasovRotterdam
Score3342
Protected land share 50 km %1310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km23 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
BrasovRotterdam
Score3562
Tourist attractions within 2 km1227
Park area within 2 km23 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 20 points.20
BrasovRotterdam
Score3151
Notable places within 2 km2374
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 27 points.27
BrasovRotterdam
Score8558
Price level global40.979.2
Daily budget€99€181
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 6 points.6
BrasovRotterdam
Score6256
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months50
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brasov
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
€118-143
OTP · 126 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
3 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 20 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
3 h 15 m
€140-185
RTM · 5 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
1 h 35 m
€224-269
1 stop
RTM · 5 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBrasovRotterdam
Official languageRomanianDutch
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation600 m10 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovRotterdam
City population237,589664,311
People per km²8902,080
Museums within 10 km840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre3677
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.