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The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Plovdiv or West Palm Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Plovdiv for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’s own page.

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv 7, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Plovdiv 50, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Plovdiv 66, West Palm Beach 42: Plovdiv leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Plovdiv 42, West Palm Beach 36: Plovdiv leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Plovdiv 68, West Palm Beach 58: Plovdiv leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Plovdiv 70, West Palm Beach 55: Plovdiv leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Plovdiv 40, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Plovdiv 65, West Palm Beach 38: Plovdiv leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Plovdiv 33, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Plovdiv 78, West Palm Beach 23: Plovdiv leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Plovdiv 42, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Plovdiv and West Palm Beach are level on 44.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Plovdiv and West Palm Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Plovdiv
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Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Plovdiv has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePlovdivWest Palm Beach
Official languageBulgarian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation172 m6 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivWest Palm Beach
City population333,994117,415
People per km²3,274786
Museums within 10 km184
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.