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The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas
The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Guadalajara or Plovdiv?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Guadalajara for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’s own page.

Choose Plovdiv for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Guadalajara 5, Plovdiv 7: Plovdiv leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Plovdiv 50: Guadalajara leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Plovdiv 66: Plovdiv leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Plovdiv 42: Guadalajara leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Plovdiv 68: Plovdiv leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Plovdiv 70: Plovdiv leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Plovdiv 40: Guadalajara leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Plovdiv 65: Plovdiv leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Plovdiv 33: Guadalajara leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara and Plovdiv are level on 78.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Plovdiv 42: Guadalajara leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Plovdiv 44: Plovdiv leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Plovdiv.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Guadalajara
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Plovdiv has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraPlovdiv
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaBulgarian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,536 m172 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraPlovdiv
City population1,385,621333,994
People per km²9,5563,274
Museums within 10 km1718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.