VacationSelector

Munich or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

MunichPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Munich and Plovdiv are level on 0.
MunichPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance579 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Munich leads by 27 points.27
MunichPlovdiv
Score7346
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 23 points.23
MunichPlovdiv
Score6138
Museums within 10 km7426
Museums within 2 km of centre4826
Share of museums within 2 km %65100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Munich leads by 25 points.25
MunichPlovdiv
Score6742
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5773
Nightclubs within 4 km10326
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MunichPlovdiv
Score4837
Protected land share 50 km %175
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km199 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 48 points.48
MunichPlovdiv
Score7931
Tourist attractions within 2 km805
Park area within 2 km199 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 27 points.27
MunichPlovdiv
Score6841
Notable places within 2 km19641
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 39 points.39
MunichPlovdiv
Score6099
Price level global75.921.4
Daily budget€163€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 9 points.9
MunichPlovdiv
Score5665
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 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 fromMunichPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 29 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureMunichPlovdiv
Official languageGermanBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation519 m172 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichPlovdiv
City population1,510,378333,994
People per km²4,8613,274
Museums within 10 km7418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8936

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