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The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Plovdiv or Portland?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Plovdiv for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’s own page.

Choose Portland for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv 7, Portland 20: Portland leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Plovdiv 50, Portland 68: Portland leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Plovdiv 66, Portland 38: Plovdiv leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Plovdiv 42, Portland 52: Portland leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Plovdiv 68, Portland 84: Portland leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Plovdiv 70, Portland 58: Plovdiv leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Plovdiv 40, Portland 55: Portland leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Plovdiv 65, Portland 62: Plovdiv leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Plovdiv 33, Portland 52: Portland leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Plovdiv 78, Portland 38: Plovdiv leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Plovdiv 42, Portland 55: Portland leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Plovdiv 44, Portland 42: Plovdiv leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Plovdiv and Portland.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Portland
52match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Plovdiv has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre88 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

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.