VacationSelector

Cadiz or Sofia?

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

Your match

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and 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.

CadizSofia
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
CadizSofia
Score700
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km290
Coast distance0 km214 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 20 points.20
CadizSofia
Score4464
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1828
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 21 points.21
CadizSofia
Score3657
Museums within 10 km2351
Museums within 2 km of centre1640
Share of museums within 2 km %7078
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 31 points.31
CadizSofia
Score3061
Drinking venues within 4 km241958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7363
Nightclubs within 4 km6102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 25 points.25
CadizSofia
Score2651
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 1 points.1
CadizSofia
Score5455
Tourist attractions within 2 km8020
Park area within 2 km24 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 26 points.26
CadizSofia
Score3157
Notable places within 2 km23104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 28 points.28
CadizSofia
Score7199
Price level global60.821.4
Daily budget€122€77
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 19 points.19
CadizSofia
Score8364
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months53
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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sofia
9
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
Sofia
3
4
6
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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 5 m
€97-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 40 m
€76-170
SOF · 8 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 8 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

MeasureCadizSofia
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 m560 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizSofia
City population109,9501,213,134
People per km²9,0872,466
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2851
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.