VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Stuttgart?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PlovdivStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Stuttgart are level on 0.
PlovdivStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance130 km476 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 13 points.13
PlovdivStuttgart
Score4659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1929
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivStuttgart
Score3856
Museums within 10 km2665
Museums within 2 km of centre2621
Share of museums within 2 km %10032
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 7 points.7
PlovdivStuttgart
Score4249
Drinking venues within 4 km392524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7371
Nightclubs within 4 km2653
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 43 points.43
PlovdivStuttgart
Score3780
Protected land share 50 km %551
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 14 points.14
PlovdivStuttgart
Score3145
Tourist attractions within 2 km511
Park area within 2 km125 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 3 points.3
PlovdivStuttgart
Score4144
Notable places within 2 km4150
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 39 points.39
PlovdivStuttgart
Score9960
Price level global21.475.9
Daily budget€77€163
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 2 points.2
PlovdivStuttgart
Score6563
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm33 mm to 79 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
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
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivStuttgart
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€187-205
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 146 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

MeasurePlovdivStuttgart
Official languageBulgarianGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivStuttgart
City population333,994633,484
People per km²3,2743,054
Museums within 10 km1842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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.