VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money 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.

Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance2 km130 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score6746
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score6638
Museums within 10 km14826
Museums within 2 km of centre7126
Share of museums within 2 km %48100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.26
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score6842
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6073
Nightclubs within 4 km16026
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score4337
Protected land share 50 km %95
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 38 points.38
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score6931
Tourist attractions within 2 km495
Park area within 2 km69 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.19
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score6041
Notable places within 2 km12541
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 17 points.17
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score8299
Price level global45.821.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresPlovdiv
Score7565
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 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 fromBuenos AiresPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBuenos AiresPlovdiv
Official languageSpanishBulgarian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m172 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresPlovdiv
City population3,121,707333,994
People per km²15,3553,274
Museums within 10 km7518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5536
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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. 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.