VacationSelector

Cadiz or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Cadiz
✓ Best match
49
match

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

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

CadizPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
CadizPlovdiv
Score700
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km291
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
CadizPlovdiv
Score4446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1819
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
CadizPlovdiv
Score3638
Museums within 10 km2326
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 12 points.12
CadizPlovdiv
Score3042
Drinking venues within 4 km241392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7373
Nightclubs within 4 km626
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 11 points.11
CadizPlovdiv
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %45
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 23 points.23
CadizPlovdiv
Score5431
Tourist attractions within 2 km805
Park area within 2 km24 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
CadizPlovdiv
Score3141
Notable places within 2 km2341
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 28 points.28
CadizPlovdiv
Score7199
Price level global60.821.4
Daily budget€122€77
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 18 points.18
CadizPlovdiv
Score8365
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months52
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 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 fromCadizPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 5 m
€97-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 40 m
€76-170
SOF · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
4 h 15 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

MeasureCadizPlovdiv
Official languageSpanishBulgarian
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
Elevation11 m172 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizPlovdiv
City population109,950333,994
People per km²9,0873,274
Museums within 10 km1118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2836
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.