VacationSelector

La Spezia or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money 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.

La SpeziaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km321
Coast distance0 km130 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score3146
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1119
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 4 points.4
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score4238
Museums within 10 km1526
Museums within 2 km of centre1026
Share of museums within 2 km %67100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 18 points.18
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score2442
Drinking venues within 4 km208392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8573
Nightclubs within 4 km126
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score5237
Protected land share 50 km %135
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 11 points.11
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score2031
Tourist attractions within 2 km35
Park area within 2 km23 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 34 points.34
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score741
Notable places within 2 km641
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 31 points.31
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score6899
Price level global64.921.4
Daily budget€155€77
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 5 points.5
La SpeziaPlovdiv
Score7065
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months22
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 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 fromLa SpeziaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 115 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 125 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureLa SpeziaPlovdiv
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
Elevation3 m172 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaPlovdiv
City population92,119333,994
People per km²1,7923,274
Museums within 10 km1218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2236
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.