VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Venice?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

PlovdivVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
PlovdivVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance130 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivVenice
Score4645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 34 points.34
PlovdivVenice
Score3872
Museums within 10 km2657
Museums within 2 km of centre2645
Share of museums within 2 km %10079
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 7 points.7
PlovdivVenice
Score4235
Drinking venues within 4 km392342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7389
Nightclubs within 4 km263
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 20 points.20
PlovdivVenice
Score3717
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km125 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 26 points.26
PlovdivVenice
Score3157
Tourist attractions within 2 km572
Park area within 2 km125 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 42 points.42
PlovdivVenice
Score4183
Notable places within 2 km41464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 31 points.31
PlovdivVenice
Score9968
Price level global21.464.9
Daily budget€77€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 1 points.1
PlovdivVenice
Score6566
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months22
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasurePlovdivVenice
Official languageBulgarianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m2 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivVenice
City population333,994250,369
People per km²3,274602
Museums within 10 km1852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.