VacationSelector

Mostar or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Mostar
32
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

MostarPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Mostar and Plovdiv are level on 0.
MostarPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km71
Coast distance44 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 27 points.27
MostarPlovdiv
Score1946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre117369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km919
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
MostarPlovdiv
Score3638
Museums within 10 km1326
Museums within 2 km of centre1226
Share of museums within 2 km %92100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 20 points.20
MostarPlovdiv
Score2242
Drinking venues within 4 km154392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre147285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9573
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 28 points.28
MostarPlovdiv
Score937
Protected land share 50 km %65
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 16 points.16
MostarPlovdiv
Score1531
Tourist attractions within 2 km105
Park area within 2 km7 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
MostarPlovdiv
Score3641
Notable places within 2 km3141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 11 points.11
MostarPlovdiv
Score8899
Price level global37.421.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 4 points.4
MostarPlovdiv
Score6165
Monthly daytime high9.3 °C to 33.4 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months02
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
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. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMostarPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
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

MeasureMostarPlovdiv
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianBulgarian
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)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
Elevation60 m172 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarPlovdiv
City population105,448333,994
People per km²903,274
Museums within 10 km318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre1836

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Mostar or Plovdiv somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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). 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. 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.