VacationSelector

Naples or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money 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.

NaplesPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 76 points.76
NaplesPlovdiv
Score760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km291
Coast distance1 km130 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Naples and Plovdiv are level on 46.
NaplesPlovdiv
Score4646
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km719
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 40 points.40
NaplesPlovdiv
Score7838
Museums within 10 km8426
Museums within 2 km of centre6826
Share of museums within 2 km %81100
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Naples leads by 24 points.24
NaplesPlovdiv
Score6642
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6973
Nightclubs within 4 km4026
Nature & day trips. Naples and Plovdiv are level on 37.
NaplesPlovdiv
Score3737
Protected land share 50 km %75
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km41 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 10 points.10
NaplesPlovdiv
Score4131
Tourist attractions within 2 km115
Park area within 2 km41 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 37 points.37
NaplesPlovdiv
Score7841
Notable places within 2 km35141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 31 points.31
NaplesPlovdiv
Score6899
Price level global64.921.4
Daily budget€155€77
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 8 points.8
NaplesPlovdiv
Score7365
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months32
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
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
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. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 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 fromNaplesPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 5 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
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

MeasureNaplesPlovdiv
Official languageItalianBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m172 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesPlovdiv
City population913,462333,994
People per km²7,6763,274
Museums within 10 km6518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3136
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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). 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.