VacationSelector

New York or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

New YorkPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkPlovdiv
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance1 km130 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 49 points.49
New YorkPlovdiv
Score9546
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3819
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 22 points.22
New YorkPlovdiv
Score6038
Museums within 10 km11926
Museums within 2 km of centre3126
Share of museums within 2 km %26100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 47 points.47
New YorkPlovdiv
Score8942
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4873
Nightclubs within 4 km19226
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 2 points.2
New YorkPlovdiv
Score3937
Protected land share 50 km %45
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 41 points.41
New YorkPlovdiv
Score7231
Tourist attractions within 2 km375
Park area within 2 km134 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 33 points.33
New YorkPlovdiv
Score7441
Notable places within 2 km26841
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
New YorkPlovdiv
Score4399
Price level global10021.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 7 points.7
New YorkPlovdiv
Score5865
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 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 fromNew YorkPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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 2026-08 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

MeasureNew YorkPlovdiv
Official languageBulgarian
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
Elevation25 m172 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkPlovdiv
City population8,804,190333,994
People per km²7,2563,274
Museums within 10 km15718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13236
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.