VacationSelector

Brasov or San Jose?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Brasov
39
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BrasovSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
BrasovSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance280 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. San Jose leads by 6 points.6
BrasovSan Jose
Score3541
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1416
Museums & heritage. Brasov leads by 12 points.12
BrasovSan Jose
Score3826
Museums within 10 km1520
Museums within 2 km of centre139
Share of museums within 2 km %8745
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. San Jose leads by 1 points.1
BrasovSan Jose
Score3031
Drinking venues within 4 km223231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16988
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7638
Nightclubs within 4 km1416
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 37 points.37
BrasovSan Jose
Score3370
Protected land share 50 km %1326
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km23 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Brasov leads by 2 points.2
BrasovSan Jose
Score3533
Tourist attractions within 2 km122
Park area within 2 km23 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Brasov leads by 17 points.17
BrasovSan Jose
Score3114
Notable places within 2 km239
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 42 points.42
BrasovSan Jose
Score8543
Price level global40.9100
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 23 points.23
BrasovSan Jose
Score6285
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months58
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10

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). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovSan Jose
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 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

MeasureBrasovSan Jose
Official languageRomanian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation600 m25 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovSan Jose
City population237,5891,013,240
People per km²8902,167
Museums within 10 km819
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3630
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.