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Cities / Romania

Brașov

RomaniaDfa
© OpenStreetMap, CARTO
Brașov coordinate map

Brașov at a glance

Local time   · Europe/Bucharest
Today
Partly cloudy31° / 12°
Travel basics
Tap water
Treat or filter
Electricity
230V/50Hz · Type C / F
Drives on
Right
Currency
RON lei
Language
Romanian
US passport
Visa-free

Entry rules change. Verify current requirements before booking.

City context
Population
238K
Elevation
600 m
Climate
Dfa
Founded
1234
RomaniaDetails and sources →

Why visit

Visit Brașov for museums, galleries, and collections, religious and civic architecture, markets, streets, food, and public squares. In Brașov, the strongest material is where museums, streets, religious buildings, markets, performance spaces, food, or nearby landscapes explain the surrounding region. A good itinerary should stay selective. A good route in Brașov begins with one serious site and adds smaller stops only when they clarify the same area. That keeps the visit to Brașov legible and leaves time for ordinary streets to do their work. Use the surroundings of Brașov deliberately: they should clarify the place, not simply add movement.

When to avoid

Do not assume Brașov can be managed as a single easy circuit. For Brașov, leave slack for closures, queues, and slow transfers. In Brașov, Sundays, holidays, traffic, queues, or cross-town transfers can change the day quickly. A route in Brașov needs extra care when the main sites do not line up by area or schedule.

Plan Brașov

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Brașov

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Today
Partly cloudy
31° / 12°
UV High
Wed
Partly cloudy
32° / 14°
UV High
Thu
Overcast
32° / 16°
UV High
Fri
Partly cloudy
31° / 16°
0.8 mm
UV High
Sat
Thunderstorm
22° / 17°
7.8 mm
UV High
Sun
Overcast
25° / 16°
UV Moderate
Mon
Fog
27° / 15°
UV High

Climate

Summer (Jun-Sep)

Typical highs around 21°C, lows around 10°C. Also the wettest months.

Winter (Dec-Mar)

Typical highs around 1°C, lows around -7°C.

In August 4

Drag to scrub across the year.

JFMAMJJASOND
Weather
23° / 12°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.2h
06:16 – 20:28local
Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest GHV · 9 km

Getting around Brașov

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

Local transit operators
FlixBus-euFlixBus-deRATBVAstra Trans CarpaticStadtwerke Schweinfurt

Operators and modes are aggregated from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications come from each feed’s route type codes.

About Brașov

Brașov is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat of Brașov County.

Area
267 km²
Mayor
George Scripcaru
Airport codes
GHV
Romania basics →Country context, advisories, and entry links for the practicalities shown above.
References5▾▴

The links below support the changing or licensed reference material on this page. Personal notes and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted individually.

  1. City background. Wikipedia summary may be clipped or paraphrased. Structured fields are cross-checked against the related references. Related: Wikidata, Open-Elevation, IANA Time Zone Database.
JFMAMJJASOND26°-12°
highlowrainfallcomfortable months

Monthly highs, lows, rainfall — long-term averages, NASA POWER.

, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Weather and climate. Seven-day forecast and long-term monthly climate for the city coordinates. Related: NASA POWER, Open-Meteo license.
  • Getting around. Transit operators from agency GTFS feeds and nearby commercial-airport reference data. Related: OurAirports.
  • Public holidays. Upcoming public-holiday dates used in the annual planning scrubber.
  • City flag source. Public domain, RCraig09.
  • Maps, image licenses, and the full dataset registry are listed in site credits.