VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Split?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

PlovdivSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
PlovdivSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km187
Coast distance130 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 8 points.8
PlovdivSplit
Score4638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1915
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 14 points.14
PlovdivSplit
Score3852
Museums within 10 km2618
Museums within 2 km of centre2616
Share of museums within 2 km %10089
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivSplit
Score4241
Drinking venues within 4 km392379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7369
Nightclubs within 4 km2623
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivSplit
Score3738
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km125 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
PlovdivSplit
Score3126
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km125 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Split leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivSplit
Score4142
Notable places within 2 km4143
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 19 points.19
PlovdivSplit
Score9980
Price level global21.448.5
Daily budget€77€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 4 points.4
PlovdivSplit
Score6569
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months22
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
BerlinBER
2 h 10 m
€76-204
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 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

MeasurePlovdivSplit
Official languageBulgarianCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivSplit
City population333,994160,577
People per km²3,274
Museums within 10 km1811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3631
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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.