VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Tromso?

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

Your match

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

PlovdivTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
PlovdivTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance130 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 22 points.22
PlovdivTromso
Score4624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre36985
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1916
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 15 points.15
PlovdivTromso
Score3823
Museums within 10 km2610
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %10080
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 35 points.35
PlovdivTromso
Score427
Drinking venues within 4 km39267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre28561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7391
Nightclubs within 4 km265
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 26 points.26
PlovdivTromso
Score3711
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km125 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 17 points.17
PlovdivTromso
Score3114
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km125 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 13 points.13
PlovdivTromso
Score4128
Notable places within 2 km4120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 45 points.45
PlovdivTromso
Score9954
Price level global21.485.1
Daily budget€77€203
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 32 points.32
PlovdivTromso
Score6533
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm56 mm to 128 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 10 m
€76-204
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasurePlovdivTromso
Official languageBulgarianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation172 m20 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivTromso
City population333,99479,943
People per km²3,27432
Museums within 10 km188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3623
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. 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.