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Ljubljana or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

LjubljanaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Ljubljana and Plovdiv are level on 0.
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance72 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ljubljana leads by 9 points.9
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score5546
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4019
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score5538
Museums within 10 km2626
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %88100
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score4542
Drinking venues within 4 km458392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6273
Nightclubs within 4 km2426
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %135
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Ljubljana leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score3831
Tourist attractions within 2 km125
Park area within 2 km75 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score5841
Notable places within 2 km10941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 27 points.27
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score7299
Price level global59.621.4
Daily budget€131€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 9 points.9
LjubljanaPlovdiv
Score5665
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months02
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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 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 fromLjubljanaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
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

MeasureLjubljanaPlovdiv
Official languageSloveneBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation309 m172 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaPlovdiv
City population284,293333,994
People per km²1,7363,274
Museums within 10 km1418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6336

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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). 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.