Plovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria and the most populous city in the Bulgarian part of the historic region of Thrace, located 144 km southeast of the capital Sofia. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. It is considered the oldest European continually inhabited city, having been inhabited since c. 6,000 BCE. It had a population of 329,489 as of 2024 and 540,000 in its greater metropolitan area. An important economic, transport, cultural, and educational hub of Bulgaria, Plovdiv was the European Capital of Culture in 2019, and joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016.
- Country
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- Elevation
- 158 m
- Population
- 329,489
- Time zone
- Europe/Sofia
- Coordinates
- 42.15, 24.75
Weather in Plovdiv month by month
The best months to go: May · Sep · Oct
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 8° | 11° | 13° | 17° | 23° | 28° | 32° | 32° | 27° | 21° | 14° | 9° |
| low | 1° | 2° | 4° | 7° | 13° | 17° | 20° | 21° | 16° | 11° | 7° | 2° |
| rain | 65 mm | 36 mm | 58 mm | 85 mm | 58 mm | 74 mm | 27 mm | 19 mm | 16 mm | 54 mm | 58 mm | 66 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Plovdiv is from other cities in Bulgaria
- Asenovgrad18 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 18 min
- Pazardzhik35 km✈ 48 min · 🚗 35 min
- Haskovo71 km✈ 50 min · 🚗 1 h 11 min
- Kazanlak74 km✈ 50 min · 🚗 1 h 14 min
- Stara Zagora80 km✈ 51 min · 🚗 1 h 20 min
- Gabrovo93 km✈ 52 min · 🚗 1 h 33 min
- Veliko Tŭrnovo126 km✈ 54 min · 🚗 2 h 6 min
- Sofía132 km✈ 55 min · 🚗 2 h 12 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.