VacationSelector

Orlando or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

OrlandoPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Orlando and Plovdiv are level on 0.
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance68 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 2 points.2
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score4846
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2119
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 30 points.30
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score838
Museums within 10 km1126
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %18100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score4142
Drinking venues within 4 km344392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6373
Nightclubs within 4 km3926
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 7 points.7
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score4437
Protected land share 50 km %155
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 58 points.58
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score8931
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km200
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares125 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km5
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 25 points.25
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score1641
Notable places within 2 km1041
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score4399
Price level global10021.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 9 points.9
OrlandoPlovdiv
Score7465
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Orlando
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. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 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 fromOrlandoPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
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

MeasureOrlandoPlovdiv
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
Elevation34 m172 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoPlovdiv
City population334,854333,994
People per km²1,0863,274
Museums within 10 km1118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3036

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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). 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.