VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Sao Paulo?

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 with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PlovdivSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance130 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score4673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3691,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.5
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score3843
Museums within 10 km2682
Museums within 2 km of centre2626
Share of museums within 2 km %10032
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.30
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score4272
Drinking venues within 4 km3921,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7351
Nightclubs within 4 km26118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score3751
Protected land share 50 km %526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km125 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.24
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score3155
Tourist attractions within 2 km538
Park area within 2 km125 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score4150
Notable places within 2 km4168
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score9981
Price level global21.446.1
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivSao Paulo
Score6583
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months21
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 125 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 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

MeasurePlovdivSao Paulo
Official languageBulgarianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation172 m760 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivSao Paulo
City population333,99411,451,999
People per km²3,2747,519
Museums within 10 km1890
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3659

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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.