VacationSelector

Granada or Sofia?

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

Your match

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

GranadaSofia
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Sofia are level on 0.
GranadaSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance48 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GranadaSofia
Score6764
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3428
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 9 points.9
GranadaSofia
Score4857
Museums within 10 km2851
Museums within 2 km of centre2640
Share of museums within 2 km %9378
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 9 points.9
GranadaSofia
Score5261
Drinking venues within 4 km637958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km46102
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 12 points.12
GranadaSofia
Score6351
Protected land share 50 km %2712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 1 points.1
GranadaSofia
Score5655
Tourist attractions within 2 km6020
Park area within 2 km46 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 13 points.13
GranadaSofia
Score4457
Notable places within 2 km50104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 28 points.28
GranadaSofia
Score7199
Price level global60.821.4
Daily budget€122€77
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 10 points.10
GranadaSofia
Score7464
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months73
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 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

MeasureGranadaSofia
Official languageSpanishBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m560 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaSofia
City population233,9751,213,134
People per km²2,6592,466
Museums within 10 km1942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6251

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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.