VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

PlovdivVienna
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Vienna are level on 0.
PlovdivVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance130 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 31 points.31
PlovdivVienna
Score4677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3691,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1937
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 43 points.43
PlovdivVienna
Score3881
Museums within 10 km26192
Museums within 2 km of centre26110
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 32 points.32
PlovdivVienna
Score4274
Drinking venues within 4 km3921,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2851,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7356
Nightclubs within 4 km26108
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
PlovdivVienna
Score3732
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 38 points.38
PlovdivVienna
Score3169
Tourist attractions within 2 km546
Park area within 2 km125 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 34 points.34
PlovdivVienna
Score4175
Notable places within 2 km41287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 40 points.40
PlovdivVienna
Score9959
Price level global21.476.9
Daily budget€77€160
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 4 points.4
PlovdivVienna
Score6561
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€230-294
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
3 h 25 m
€283-311
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasurePlovdivVienna
Official languageBulgarianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivVienna
City population333,9942,028,289
People per km²3,2744,890
Museums within 10 km18152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre36113

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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.