VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Siena?

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

Your match

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

PlovdivSiena
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Siena are level on 0.
PlovdivSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance130 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 14 points.14
PlovdivSiena
Score4632
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1911
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 33 points.33
PlovdivSiena
Score3871
Museums within 10 km2655
Museums within 2 km of centre2651
Share of museums within 2 km %10093
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 25 points.25
PlovdivSiena
Score4217
Drinking venues within 4 km392142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7384
Nightclubs within 4 km261
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivSiena
Score3719
Protected land share 50 km %53
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv and Siena are level on 31.
PlovdivSiena
Score3131
Tourist attractions within 2 km513
Park area within 2 km125 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 9 points.9
PlovdivSiena
Score4150
Notable places within 2 km4169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 31 points.31
PlovdivSiena
Score9968
Price level global21.464.9
Daily budget€77€155
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivSiena
Score6564
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Siena
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 5 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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

MeasurePlovdivSiena
Official languageBulgarianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m322 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivSiena
City population333,99452,812
People per km²3,274446
Museums within 10 km1829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3625

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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. 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.