VacationSelector

Plovdiv or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance130 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 9 points.9
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score4637
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1914
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 21 points.21
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score3817
Museums within 10 km265
Museums within 2 km of centre263
Share of museums within 2 km %10060
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 22 points.22
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score4220
Drinking venues within 4 km392132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre28590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7368
Nightclubs within 4 km2610
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 32 points.32
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score3769
Protected land share 50 km %515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km125 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score3121
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km125 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 29 points.29
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score4112
Notable places within 2 km418
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 56 points.56
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score9943
Price level global21.4100
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.10
PlovdivWest Palm Beach
Score6575
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm67 mm to 217 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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Daytime high, °C
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

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 centre37 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3618
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.