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The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Plovdiv or Seville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Seville leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Plovdiv 50, Seville 73: Seville leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Plovdiv 66, Seville 82: Seville leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Plovdiv 42, Seville 62: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Plovdiv 68, Seville 52: Plovdiv leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Plovdiv 70, Seville 80: Seville leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Plovdiv 40, Seville 55: Seville leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Plovdiv 65, Seville 72: Seville leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Plovdiv 33, Seville 55: Seville leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Plovdiv 78, Seville 58: Plovdiv leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Plovdiv 42, Seville 68: Seville leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Plovdiv 44, Seville 40: Plovdiv leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Plovdiv and Seville.

Your match

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

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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
15 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePlovdivSeville
Official languageBulgarianSpanish
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
Elevation172 m18 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivSeville
City population333,994689,423
People per km²3,2744,896
Museums within 10 km1824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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.