VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Prague?

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

Your match

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PlovdivPrague
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Prague are level on 0.
PlovdivPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance130 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 29 points.29
PlovdivPrague
Score4675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3691,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 34 points.34
PlovdivPrague
Score3872
Museums within 10 km26138
Museums within 2 km of centre26100
Share of museums within 2 km %10072
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Prague leads by 35 points.35
PlovdivPrague
Score4277
Drinking venues within 4 km3922,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2851,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7365
Nightclubs within 4 km26123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 8 points.8
PlovdivPrague
Score3745
Protected land share 50 km %512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 44 points.44
PlovdivPrague
Score3175
Tourist attractions within 2 km554
Park area within 2 km125 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 35 points.35
PlovdivPrague
Score4176
Notable places within 2 km41310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 24 points.24
PlovdivPrague
Score9975
Price level global21.455.2
Daily budget€77€107
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 4 points.4
PlovdivPrague
Score6561
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months27
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 0 m
€123-212
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasurePlovdivPrague
Official languageBulgarianCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m235 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivPrague
City population333,9941,397,880
People per km²3,2742,817
Museums within 10 km1888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3689

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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.