VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km431
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 8 points.8
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score3846
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1819
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score4938
Museums within 10 km1826
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %94100
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score2042
Drinking venues within 4 km128392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km1326
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 32 points.32
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score537
Protected land share 50 km %45
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score2131
Tourist attractions within 2 km125
Park area within 2 km6 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.3
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score4441
Notable places within 2 km4841
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 19 points.19
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score8099
Price level global48.521.4
Daily budget€138€77
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik and Plovdiv are level on 65.
DubrovnikPlovdiv
Score6565
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
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
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
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. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 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 fromDubrovnikPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
3 h 35 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 2026-08 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureDubrovnikPlovdiv
Official languageCroatianBulgarian
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
Elevation10 m172 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikPlovdiv
City population41,562333,994
People per km²3,274
Museums within 10 km718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3236
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.