VacationSelector

Plovdiv or San Diego?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

PlovdivSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
PlovdivSan Diego
Score063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance130 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
PlovdivSan Diego
Score4663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. San Diego leads by 6 points.6
PlovdivSan Diego
Score3844
Museums within 10 km2659
Museums within 2 km of centre2630
Share of museums within 2 km %10051
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 8 points.8
PlovdivSan Diego
Score4250
Drinking venues within 4 km392615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7366
Nightclubs within 4 km2631
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivSan Diego
Score3755
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km125 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 44 points.44
PlovdivSan Diego
Score3175
Tourist attractions within 2 km540
Park area within 2 km125 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivSan Diego
Score4140
Notable places within 2 km4140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
PlovdivSan Diego
Score9943
Price level global21.4100
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 23 points.23
PlovdivSan Diego
Score6588
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months29
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasurePlovdivSan Diego
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 m129 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivSan Diego
City population333,9941,386,932
People per km²3,2741,438
Museums within 10 km1826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3644
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. 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.