VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Strasbourg?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PlovdivStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Strasbourg are level on 0.
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance130 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 21 points.21
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score4667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1936
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 3 points.3
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score3841
Museums within 10 km2623
Museums within 2 km of centre2614
Share of museums within 2 km %10061
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 6 points.6
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score4236
Drinking venues within 4 km392305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7387
Nightclubs within 4 km2617
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 17 points.17
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score3754
Protected land share 50 km %537
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 7 points.7
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score3138
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km125 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 17 points.17
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score4158
Notable places within 2 km41109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 37 points.37
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score9962
Price level global21.473.7
Daily budget€77€160
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
PlovdivStrasbourg
Score6563
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months23
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
NiceNCE
2 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePlovdivStrasbourg
Official languageBulgarianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m132 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivStrasbourg
City population333,994293,771
People per km²3,2743,752
Museums within 10 km1821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3687

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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.