VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

EdinburghPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance3 km130 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 24 points.24
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score7046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score5738
Museums within 10 km3026
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 22 points.22
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score6442
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7473
Nightclubs within 4 km6526
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score3537
Protected land share 50 km %25
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 41 points.41
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score7231
Tourist attractions within 2 km875
Park area within 2 km166 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score6041
Notable places within 2 km12641
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 45 points.45
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score5499
Price level global84.921.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghPlovdiv
Score5165
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 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 fromEdinburghPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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 2026-08 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

MeasureEdinburghPlovdiv
Official languageEnglishBulgarian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m172 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghPlovdiv
City population488,050333,994
People per km²1,8843,274
Museums within 10 km3218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7836
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.