VacationSelector

London or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LondonPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. London and Plovdiv are level on 0.
LondonPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km471
Coast distance43 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 42 points.42
LondonPlovdiv
Score8846
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4019
Museums & heritage. London leads by 34 points.34
LondonPlovdiv
Score7238
Museums within 10 km14826
Museums within 2 km of centre4926
Share of museums within 2 km %33100
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 53 points.53
LondonPlovdiv
Score9542
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4673
Nightclubs within 4 km31226
Nature & day trips. London leads by 3 points.3
LondonPlovdiv
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %165
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 44 points.44
LondonPlovdiv
Score7531
Tourist attractions within 2 km855
Park area within 2 km84 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 48 points.48
LondonPlovdiv
Score8941
Notable places within 2 km64941
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 45 points.45
LondonPlovdiv
Score5499
Price level global84.921.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
LondonPlovdiv
Score6365
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months12
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 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 fromLondonPlovdiv
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€187-205
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
AthensATH
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€113-165
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureLondonPlovdiv
Official languageEnglishBulgarian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m172 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonPlovdiv
City population8,799,728333,994
People per km²5,5983,274
Museums within 10 km21518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11636

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.