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Ottawa or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

OttawaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Plovdiv are level on 0.
OttawaPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance423 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 18 points.18
OttawaPlovdiv
Score6446
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3419
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 6 points.6
OttawaPlovdiv
Score3238
Museums within 10 km1526
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %53100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 2 points.2
OttawaPlovdiv
Score4442
Drinking venues within 4 km432392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7073
Nightclubs within 4 km3526
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 4 points.4
OttawaPlovdiv
Score4137
Protected land share 50 km %85
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 15 points.15
OttawaPlovdiv
Score4631
Tourist attractions within 2 km115
Park area within 2 km122 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 9 points.9
OttawaPlovdiv
Score5041
Notable places within 2 km7141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 45 points.45
OttawaPlovdiv
Score5499
Price level global8421.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 12 points.12
OttawaPlovdiv
Score5365
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 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 fromOttawaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
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

MeasureOttawaPlovdiv
Official languageFrench, EnglishBulgarian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)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
Elevation70 m172 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaPlovdiv
City population1,017,449333,994
People per km²3663,274
Museums within 10 km2018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6236

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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.