VacationSelector

Florence or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on 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.

FlorencePlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Plovdiv are level on 0.
FlorencePlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance78 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Florence leads by 13 points.13
FlorencePlovdiv
Score5946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1519
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 44 points.44
FlorencePlovdiv
Score8238
Museums within 10 km13226
Museums within 2 km of centre9326
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorencePlovdiv
Score5642
Drinking venues within 4 km818392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7373
Nightclubs within 4 km3426
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 1 points.1
FlorencePlovdiv
Score3837
Protected land share 50 km %95
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 21 points.21
FlorencePlovdiv
Score5231
Tourist attractions within 2 km305
Park area within 2 km86 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 34 points.34
FlorencePlovdiv
Score7541
Notable places within 2 km29241
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 31 points.31
FlorencePlovdiv
Score6899
Price level global64.921.4
Daily budget€155€77
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 3 points.3
FlorencePlovdiv
Score6865
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months22
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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F
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A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 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 fromFlorencePlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
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

MeasureFlorencePlovdiv
Official languageItalianBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m172 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorencePlovdiv
City population360,930333,994
People per km²3,5283,274
Museums within 10 km14018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6236

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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. 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.