VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km651
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 42 points.42
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score8846
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score3638
Museums within 10 km5026
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %34100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 29 points.29
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score7142
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5973
Nightclubs within 4 km3726
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score6437
Protected land share 50 km %85
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %29100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score5831
Tourist attractions within 2 km275
Park area within 2 km52 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 28 points.28
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score6941
Notable places within 2 km20441
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 36 points.36
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score6399
Price level global7221.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
Hong KongPlovdiv
Score7465
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months42
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 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 fromHong KongPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 50 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 54 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

MeasureHong KongPlovdiv
Official languageStandard ChineseBulgarian
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m172 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongPlovdiv
City population7,413,070333,994
People per km²3,274
Museums within 10 km3918
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7636
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. 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. 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.