VacationSelector

Mexico City or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

Mexico CityPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Plovdiv are level on 0.
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance247 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score6646
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1519
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 41 points.41
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score7938
Museums within 10 km13826
Museums within 2 km of centre6526
Share of museums within 2 km %47100
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score7842
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4373
Nightclubs within 4 km19826
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score6337
Protected land share 50 km %305
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score5031
Tourist attractions within 2 km235
Park area within 2 km32 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 13 points.13
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score5441
Notable places within 2 km8841
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 23 points.23
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score7699
Price level global54.221.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 25 points.25
Mexico CityPlovdiv
Score9065
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months62
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 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 fromMexico CityPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
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

MeasureMexico CityPlovdiv
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaBulgarian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m172 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityPlovdiv
City population9,209,944333,994
People per km²6,2023,274
Museums within 10 km10818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5036

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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.