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The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Plovdiv or Porto?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Porto for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Plovdiv 50, Porto 70: Porto leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Plovdiv 66, Porto 68: Porto leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Plovdiv 42, Porto 65: Porto leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Plovdiv 68, Porto 64: Plovdiv leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Plovdiv 70, Porto 79: Porto leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Plovdiv 40, Porto 52: Porto leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Plovdiv 65, Porto 66: Porto leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Plovdiv 33, Porto 52: Porto leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Plovdiv 78, Porto 62: Plovdiv leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Plovdiv 42, Porto 52: Porto leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Plovdiv 44, Porto 34: Plovdiv leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Plovdiv and Porto.

Your match

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

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePlovdivPorto
Official languageBulgarianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m104 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivPorto
City population333,994273,476
People per km²3,2746,606
Museums within 10 km1842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.