VacationSelector

Berlin or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BerlinPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Plovdiv are level on 0.
BerlinPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance142 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BerlinPlovdiv
Score7046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3319
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 41 points.41
BerlinPlovdiv
Score7938
Museums within 10 km20026
Museums within 2 km of centre8126
Share of museums within 2 km %41100
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 34 points.34
BerlinPlovdiv
Score7642
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3473
Nightclubs within 4 km13526
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinPlovdiv
Score4937
Protected land share 50 km %205
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 45 points.45
BerlinPlovdiv
Score7631
Tourist attractions within 2 km545
Park area within 2 km141 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 43 points.43
BerlinPlovdiv
Score8441
Notable places within 2 km48641
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 39 points.39
BerlinPlovdiv
Score6099
Price level global75.921.4
Daily budget€163€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
BerlinPlovdiv
Score6065
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months32
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 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 fromBerlinPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€86-132
BER · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€126-154
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinPlovdiv
Official languageGermanBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m172 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinPlovdiv
City population3,782,202333,994
People per km²4,2443,274
Museums within 10 km15818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8636

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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.