VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Sofia?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

LjubljanaSofia
Beaches & swimming. Ljubljana and Sofia are level on 0.
LjubljanaSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance72 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 9 points.9
LjubljanaSofia
Score5564
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4028
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaSofia
Score5557
Museums within 10 km2651
Museums within 2 km of centre2340
Share of museums within 2 km %8878
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 16 points.16
LjubljanaSofia
Score4561
Drinking venues within 4 km458958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6263
Nightclubs within 4 km24102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 11 points.11
LjubljanaSofia
Score4051
Protected land share 50 km %1312
Landscape blanket share 50 km %54
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaSofia
Score3855
Tourist attractions within 2 km1220
Park area within 2 km75 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 1 points.1
LjubljanaSofia
Score5857
Notable places within 2 km109104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 27 points.27
LjubljanaSofia
Score7299
Price level global59.621.4
Daily budget€131€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 8 points.8
LjubljanaSofia
Score5664
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months03
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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sofia
9
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
Sofia
3
4
6
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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 8 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

MeasureLjubljanaSofia
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 m560 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaSofia
City population284,2931,213,134
People per km²1,7362,466
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6351

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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.