VacationSelector

Plovdiv or The Hague?

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.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PlovdivThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
PlovdivThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance130 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
PlovdivThe Hague
Score4670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1943
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
PlovdivThe Hague
Score3862
Museums within 10 km2646
Museums within 2 km of centre2626
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
PlovdivThe Hague
Score4246
Drinking venues within 4 km392511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7356
Nightclubs within 4 km2619
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
PlovdivThe Hague
Score3754
Protected land share 50 km %58
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km125 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 25 points.25
PlovdivThe Hague
Score3156
Tourist attractions within 2 km510
Park area within 2 km125 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 13 points.13
PlovdivThe Hague
Score4154
Notable places within 2 km4186
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 41 points.41
PlovdivThe Hague
Score9958
Price level global21.479.2
Daily budget€77€181
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 11 points.11
PlovdivThe Hague
Score6554
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivThe Hague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 50 m
€209-257
AMS · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 40 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasurePlovdivThe Hague
Official languageBulgarianDutch
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 or 911
Elevation172 m1 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivThe Hague
City population333,994548,320
People per km²3,2745,589
Museums within 10 km1854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3677
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.