VacationSelector

Sofia or Vilnius?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Vilnius
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

SofiaVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Sofia and Vilnius are level on 0.
SofiaVilnius
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance214 km260 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 4 points.4
SofiaVilnius
Score6460
Restaurants within 2 km of centre845537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2832
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 14 points.14
SofiaVilnius
Score5771
Museums within 10 km5174
Museums within 2 km of centre4054
Share of museums within 2 km %7873
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 15 points.15
SofiaVilnius
Score6146
Drinking venues within 4 km958464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre608388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6384
Nightclubs within 4 km10239
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 10 points.10
SofiaVilnius
Score5141
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km229 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 4 points.4
SofiaVilnius
Score5551
Tourist attractions within 2 km2027
Park area within 2 km229 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 8 points.8
SofiaVilnius
Score5765
Notable places within 2 km104161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 23 points.23
SofiaVilnius
Score9976
Price level global21.453.1
Daily budget€77€125
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 11 points.11
SofiaVilnius
Score6453
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 28.4 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 78 mm41 mm to 90 mm
Dry months30
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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Rainfall, mm
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSofiaVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€187-205
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€41-70
SOF · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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

MeasureSofiaVilnius
Official languageBulgarianLithuanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation560 m98 m
Main airportSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSofiaVilnius
City population1,213,134581,475
People per km²2,4661,450
Museums within 10 km4230
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5154

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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.