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Plovdiv or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PlovdivWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Warsaw are level on 0.
PlovdivWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km126
Coast distance130 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 26 points.26
PlovdivWarsaw
Score4672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3691,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
PlovdivWarsaw
Score3863
Museums within 10 km26107
Museums within 2 km of centre2660
Share of museums within 2 km %10056
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
PlovdivWarsaw
Score4262
Drinking venues within 4 km3921,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7364
Nightclubs within 4 km26104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivWarsaw
Score3755
Protected land share 50 km %527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 39 points.39
PlovdivWarsaw
Score3170
Tourist attractions within 2 km542
Park area within 2 km125 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 35 points.35
PlovdivWarsaw
Score4176
Notable places within 2 km41299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 20 points.20
PlovdivWarsaw
Score9979
Price level global21.449
Daily budget€77€133
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 6 points.6
PlovdivWarsaw
Score6559
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months26
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
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
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 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

MeasurePlovdivWarsaw
Official languageBulgarianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m118 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivWarsaw
City population333,9941,862,402
People per km²3,2743,601
Museums within 10 km18117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3676

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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. 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.