VacationSelector

Genoa or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

GenoaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaPlovdiv
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km371
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
GenoaPlovdiv
Score5046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1419
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 17 points.17
GenoaPlovdiv
Score5538
Museums within 10 km4726
Museums within 2 km of centre3326
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaPlovdiv
Score5042
Drinking venues within 4 km637392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6673
Nightclubs within 4 km1726
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
GenoaPlovdiv
Score3537
Protected land share 50 km %85
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Genoa leads by 7 points.7
GenoaPlovdiv
Score3831
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km29 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 20 points.20
GenoaPlovdiv
Score6141
Notable places within 2 km13041
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 31 points.31
GenoaPlovdiv
Score6899
Price level global64.921.4
Daily budget€155€77
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaPlovdiv
Score7365
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months32
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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
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
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 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 fromGenoaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
€113-165
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
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

MeasureGenoaPlovdiv
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
Elevation20 m172 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaPlovdiv
City population558,745333,994
People per km²2,3253,274
Museums within 10 km5118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4136
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.