VacationSelector

Avignon or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AvignonPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Avignon and Plovdiv are level on 0.
AvignonPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance55 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
AvignonPlovdiv
Score4446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre336369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1819
Museums & heritage. Avignon leads by 17 points.17
AvignonPlovdiv
Score5538
Museums within 10 km1726
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %94100
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 26 points.26
AvignonPlovdiv
Score1642
Drinking venues within 4 km115392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre97285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km426
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 7 points.7
AvignonPlovdiv
Score4437
Protected land share 50 km %365
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Avignon leads by 11 points.11
AvignonPlovdiv
Score4231
Tourist attractions within 2 km155
Park area within 2 km23 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
AvignonPlovdiv
Score4041
Notable places within 2 km4041
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 37 points.37
AvignonPlovdiv
Score6299
Price level global73.721.4
Daily budget€160€77
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 5 points.5
AvignonPlovdiv
Score7065
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months22
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 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 fromAvignonPlovdiv
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 65 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

MeasureAvignonPlovdiv
Official languageFrenchBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m172 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonPlovdiv
City population92,188333,994
People per km²1,4203,274
Museums within 10 km1118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre3636

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.