VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

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

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Los AngelesPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score290
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km01
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score6646
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2219
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score4938
Museums within 10 km6926
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %33100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score5442
Drinking venues within 4 km660392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6573
Nightclubs within 4 km6426
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score6237
Protected land share 50 km %265
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 2 points.2
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score3331
Tourist attractions within 2 km115
Park area within 2 km20 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score5441
Notable places within 2 km8841
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score4399
Price level global10021.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 22 points.22
Los AngelesPlovdiv
Score8765
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 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 fromLos AngelesPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
16 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLos AngelesPlovdiv
Official languageBulgarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m172 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPlovdiv
City population3,898,747333,994
People per km²2,9943,274
Museums within 10 km3818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4636
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.