VacationSelector

Geneva or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

GenevaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Geneva and Plovdiv are level on 0.
GenevaPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km431
Coast distance279 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
GenevaPlovdiv
Score7046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GenevaPlovdiv
Score5238
Museums within 10 km3526
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %57100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
GenevaPlovdiv
Score5042
Drinking venues within 4 km549392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7873
Nightclubs within 4 km6026
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 22 points.22
GenevaPlovdiv
Score5937
Protected land share 50 km %275
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km182 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 34 points.34
GenevaPlovdiv
Score6531
Tourist attractions within 2 km285
Park area within 2 km182 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 15 points.15
GenevaPlovdiv
Score5641
Notable places within 2 km9941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 64 points.64
GenevaPlovdiv
Score3599
Price level global110.521.4
Daily budget€248€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 6 points.6
GenevaPlovdiv
Score5965
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 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 fromGenevaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€235-253
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
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

MeasureGenevaPlovdiv
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshBulgarian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m172 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaPlovdiv
City population209,061333,994
People per km²13,1483,274
Museums within 10 km3518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8036

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. 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.