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Philadelphia or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Plovdiv are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance13 km130 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 31 points.31
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score7746
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3519
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score6038
Museums within 10 km8926
Museums within 2 km of centre4826
Share of museums within 2 km %54100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score5942
Drinking venues within 4 km930392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6273
Nightclubs within 4 km4126
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score4937
Protected land share 50 km %145
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score5331
Tourist attractions within 2 km165
Park area within 2 km75 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score5441
Notable places within 2 km8841
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score4399
Price level global10021.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaPlovdiv
Score6065
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 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 fromPhiladelphiaPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaPlovdiv
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
Elevation12 m172 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaPlovdiv
City population1,603,797333,994
People per km²4,3393,274
Museums within 10 km5418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7536

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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.