VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Tampa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

PlovdivTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
PlovdivTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance130 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
PlovdivTampa
Score4654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1931
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 11 points.11
PlovdivTampa
Score3827
Museums within 10 km2613
Museums within 2 km of centre2610
Share of museums within 2 km %10077
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 3 points.3
PlovdivTampa
Score4239
Drinking venues within 4 km392324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7370
Nightclubs within 4 km2626
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 7 points.7
PlovdivTampa
Score3730
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km125 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivTampa
Score3130
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km125 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 20 points.20
PlovdivTampa
Score4121
Notable places within 2 km4113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
PlovdivTampa
Score9943
Price level global21.4100
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 10 points.10
PlovdivTampa
Score6575
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months21
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasurePlovdivTampa
Official languageBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation172 m30 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivTampa
City population333,994384,959
People per km²3,274848
Museums within 10 km186
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3647
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.