VacationSelector

Antalya or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Antalya
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AntalyaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 72 points.72
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score720
Swim season months70
Beaches 10 km111
Coast distance1 km130 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score4546
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1119
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 13 points.13
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score2538
Museums within 10 km1126
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 17 points.17
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score5942
Drinking venues within 4 km917392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5673
Nightclubs within 4 km5526
Nature & day trips. Antalya leads by 4 points.4
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score4137
Protected land share 50 km %85
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Antalya leads by 9 points.9
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score4031
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km69 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 14 points.14
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score2741
Notable places within 2 km1941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score8999
Price level global35.221.4
Daily budget€100€77
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 6 points.6
AntalyaPlovdiv
Score7165
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months42
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
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaPlovdiv
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 40 m
€144-173
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€154-247
AYT · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
BerlinBER
3 h 15 m
€135-164
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€76-204
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KVA · 137 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€41-70
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 45 m
€168-195
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 125 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureAntalyaPlovdiv
Official languageTurkishBulgarian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m172 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaPlovdiv
City population2,426,356333,994
People per km²1,7123,274
Museums within 10 km518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2236
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.