VacationSelector

Limassol 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, 2 points apart

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
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.

LimassolPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
LimassolPlovdiv
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km271
Coast distance1 km130 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 3 points.3
LimassolPlovdiv
Score4346
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1919
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
LimassolPlovdiv
Score4438
Museums within 10 km1726
Museums within 2 km of centre1026
Share of museums within 2 km %59100
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 3 points.3
LimassolPlovdiv
Score3942
Drinking venues within 4 km340392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7573
Nightclubs within 4 km2026
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 15 points.15
LimassolPlovdiv
Score2237
Protected land share 50 km %25
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %49100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 15 points.15
LimassolPlovdiv
Score1631
Tourist attractions within 2 km35
Park area within 2 km32 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 27 points.27
LimassolPlovdiv
Score1441
Notable places within 2 km941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 29 points.29
LimassolPlovdiv
Score7099
Price level global61.421.4
Daily budget€129€77
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 20 points.20
LimassolPlovdiv
Score8565
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months82
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 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 fromLimassolPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 15 m
€113-165
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
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

MeasureLimassolPlovdiv
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m172 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolPlovdiv
City population107,970333,994
People per km²2,4053,274
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2836
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.