VacationSelector

Sofia or Toledo?

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

Your match

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

SofiaToledo
Beaches & swimming. Sofia and Toledo are level on 0.
SofiaToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance214 km320 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 40 points.40
SofiaToledo
Score6424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre845249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km287
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 11 points.11
SofiaToledo
Score5746
Museums within 10 km5119
Museums within 2 km of centre4019
Share of museums within 2 km %78100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 44 points.44
SofiaToledo
Score6117
Drinking venues within 4 km958120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre608115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6396
Nightclubs within 4 km1025
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 23 points.23
SofiaToledo
Score5128
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km229 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 1 points.1
SofiaToledo
Score5554
Tourist attractions within 2 km2032
Park area within 2 km229 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 11 points.11
SofiaToledo
Score5746
Notable places within 2 km10455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 28 points.28
SofiaToledo
Score9971
Price level global21.460.8
Daily budget€77€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 10 points.10
SofiaToledo
Score6474
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 28.4 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 78 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months311
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSofiaToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€193-236
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 8 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureSofiaToledo
Official languageBulgarianSpanish
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
Elevation560 m523 m
Main airportSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSofiaToledo
City population1,213,13487,216
People per km²2,466376
Museums within 10 km4213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5113

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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. 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.