VacationSelector

Faro or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

FaroPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroPlovdiv
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
FaroPlovdiv
Score4446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2219
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 16 points.16
FaroPlovdiv
Score2238
Museums within 10 km926
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %89100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 21 points.21
FaroPlovdiv
Score2142
Drinking venues within 4 km143392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroPlovdiv
Score5737
Protected land share 50 km %115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 5 points.5
FaroPlovdiv
Score3631
Tourist attractions within 2 km105
Park area within 2 km34 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 19 points.19
FaroPlovdiv
Score2241
Notable places within 2 km1441
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 25 points.25
FaroPlovdiv
Score7499
Price level global55.921.4
Daily budget€109€77
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroPlovdiv
Score8365
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months62
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 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 fromFaroPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 25 m
€156-284
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
€76-170
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureFaroPlovdiv
Official languagePortugueseBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m172 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroPlovdiv
City population64,560333,994
People per km²3193,274
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3436
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.