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Atlanta or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

AtlantaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Plovdiv are level on 0.
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance373 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score5946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2319
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score3538
Museums within 10 km4126
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %39100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score4942
Drinking venues within 4 km531392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5373
Nightclubs within 4 km4626
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score3137
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score3231
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km113 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score4041
Notable places within 2 km3941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score4399
Price level global10021.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaPlovdiv
Score6765
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months02
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 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 fromAtlantaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
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

MeasureAtlantaPlovdiv
Official languageBulgarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m172 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaPlovdiv
City population498,715333,994
People per km²1,4333,274
Museums within 10 km2718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5636

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.