VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Zadar?

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 places to eat and value for money with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
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.

PlovdivZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
PlovdivZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance130 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 21 points.21
PlovdivZadar
Score4625
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1911
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 5 points.5
PlovdivZadar
Score3833
Museums within 10 km268
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %100100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 17 points.17
PlovdivZadar
Score4225
Drinking venues within 4 km392194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7372
Nightclubs within 4 km264
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivZadar
Score3755
Protected land share 50 km %512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km125 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv and Zadar are level on 31.
PlovdivZadar
Score3131
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km125 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
PlovdivZadar
Score4131
Notable places within 2 km4123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 19 points.19
PlovdivZadar
Score9980
Price level global21.448.5
Daily budget€77€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
PlovdivZadar
Score6569
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm25 mm to 117 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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Zadar
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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
CologneCGN
2 h 30 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MemmingenFMM
2 h 5 m
€62-166
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 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

MeasurePlovdivZadar
Official languageBulgarianCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivZadar
City population333,99470,779
People per km²3,274
Museums within 10 km181
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3617
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.