VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PlovdivRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
PlovdivRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance130 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 26 points.26
PlovdivRotterdam
Score4672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1946
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 22 points.22
PlovdivRotterdam
Score3860
Museums within 10 km2641
Museums within 2 km of centre2620
Share of museums within 2 km %10049
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
PlovdivRotterdam
Score4249
Drinking venues within 4 km392542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7370
Nightclubs within 4 km2640
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
PlovdivRotterdam
Score3742
Protected land share 50 km %510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km125 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 31 points.31
PlovdivRotterdam
Score3162
Tourist attractions within 2 km527
Park area within 2 km125 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
PlovdivRotterdam
Score4151
Notable places within 2 km4174
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 41 points.41
PlovdivRotterdam
Score9958
Price level global21.479.2
Daily budget€77€181
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 9 points.9
PlovdivRotterdam
Score6556
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months20
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivRotterdam
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 50 m
€209-257
AMS · 47 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 47 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasurePlovdivRotterdam
Official languageBulgarianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation172 m10 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivRotterdam
City population333,994664,311
People per km²3,2742,080
Museums within 10 km1840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3677
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.