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Plovdiv or Portland?

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, 2 points apart

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

PlovdivPortland
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Portland are level on 0.
PlovdivPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance130 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 28 points.28
PlovdivPortland
Score4674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3691,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1944
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 3 points.3
PlovdivPortland
Score3835
Museums within 10 km2623
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %10065
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Portland leads by 16 points.16
PlovdivPortland
Score4258
Drinking venues within 4 km392942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7355
Nightclubs within 4 km2632
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
PlovdivPortland
Score3735
Protected land share 50 km %513
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Portland leads by 3 points.3
PlovdivPortland
Score3134
Tourist attractions within 2 km58
Park area within 2 km125 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 6 points.6
PlovdivPortland
Score4135
Notable places within 2 km4129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
PlovdivPortland
Score9943
Price level global21.4100
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Plovdiv and Portland are level on 65.
PlovdivPortland
Score6565
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months23
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
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivPortland
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasurePlovdivPortland
Official languageBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation172 m152 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivPortland
City population333,994652,503
People per km²3,2741,736
Museums within 10 km1817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3682

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.