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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Miami Beach or Plovdiv?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’s own page.

Choose Plovdiv for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Miami Beach 92, Plovdiv 7: Miami Beach leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Plovdiv 50: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Plovdiv 66: Plovdiv leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Plovdiv 42: Miami Beach leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach 52, Plovdiv 68: Plovdiv leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Plovdiv 70: Plovdiv leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Plovdiv 40: Miami Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Plovdiv 65: Plovdiv leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach 55, Plovdiv 33: Miami Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Plovdiv 78: Plovdiv leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Plovdiv 42: Miami Beach leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Plovdiv 44: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Plovdiv.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Miami BeachPlovdiv

Where the figures come from

Plovdiv has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachPlovdiv
Official language-Bulgarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1 m172 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami BeachPlovdiv
City population82,890333,994
People per km²2,1093,274
Museums within 10 km1418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.