VacationSelector

Interlaken or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

InterlakenPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Plovdiv are level on 0.
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km121
Coast distance713 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 17 points.17
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score2946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1719
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 15 points.15
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score2338
Museums within 10 km526
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %40100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 38 points.38
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score442
Drinking venues within 4 km42392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9073
Nightclubs within 4 km326
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score2737
Protected land share 50 km %195
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 17 points.17
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score1431
Tourist attractions within 2 km115
Park area within 2 km5 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score2241
Notable places within 2 km1441
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 64 points.64
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score3599
Price level global110.521.4
Daily budget€248€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenPlovdiv
Score5765
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 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 fromInterlakenPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
€76-204
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInterlakenPlovdiv
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
Elevation571 m172 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenPlovdiv
City population6,123333,994
People per km²1,4243,274
Museums within 10 km318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2236

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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). 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.