VacationSelector

Plovdiv or Zurich?

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, level with your weighting

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

PlovdivZurich
Beaches & swimming. Plovdiv and Zurich are level on 0.
PlovdivZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance130 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 21 points.21
PlovdivZurich
Score4667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre369974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1930
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivZurich
Score3856
Museums within 10 km2676
Museums within 2 km of centre2637
Share of museums within 2 km %10049
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 12 points.12
PlovdivZurich
Score4254
Drinking venues within 4 km392676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre285553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7382
Nightclubs within 4 km2674
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv and Zurich are level on 37.
PlovdivZurich
Score3737
Protected land share 50 km %516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km125 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
PlovdivZurich
Score3136
Tourist attractions within 2 km58
Park area within 2 km125 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 18 points.18
PlovdivZurich
Score4159
Notable places within 2 km41119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 64 points.64
PlovdivZurich
Score9935
Price level global21.4110.5
Daily budget€77€248
Year-round weather. Plovdiv leads by 12 points.12
PlovdivZurich
Score6553
Monthly daytime high5.4 °C to 31.1 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 81 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPlovdivZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
2 h 10 m
€76-204
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 125 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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

MeasurePlovdivZurich
Official languageBulgarianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m408 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivZurich
City population333,994452,421
People per km²3,2745,147
Museums within 10 km1863
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3678

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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.