La ville hôte · 10–15 mai 2027
Burgas, dans la deuxième semaine de mai.
Un port de 200 000 habitants sur la côte bulgare de la mer Noire. Les chapitres de la ville restent en anglais.
Four ways in
The city, chapter by chapter
The contest runs six days. These four are what the city is actually made of, and none of them is more than twenty-five minutes from the arena.
Practical notes
What to know
before you book
Burgas is easy in the way that port cities are easy: flat, walkable, and used to people arriving from somewhere else. The contest week is the busiest week of its year, which changes three things.
- Beds go first. 98 to 99% of the city's rooms are already unavailable for 10–15 May on the main booking sites.
- Fly to Varna if Burgas is full. Two hours by motorway, coaches every day, and far more seats from European hubs.
- Bring a jacket. 20–24 °C in the afternoon, and a wind off the bay once the sun drops.
- Currency
- The euro since 1 January 2026. Cards accepted almost everywhere.
- Time
- EET, UTC+2 — UTC+3 during contest week, summer time.
- Language
- Bulgarian. English is common in hotels and restaurants.
- Weather, mid-May
- 20–24 °C by day, sea around 17 °C.
- Entry
- Bulgaria is in Schengen since 2025. EU and UK passports, no visa for a short stay.
- The arena
- Arena Burgas, zh.k. Izgrev, bul. Stefan Stambolov 79, 8008 Burgas.
Three ways in, one way out
Arriving
Burgas Airport (BOJ)
10 km · 15 minutes by taxi
The airport sits at Sarafovo, north-east of the city. Bus 15 runs to the South Bus Station; a taxi to the centre starts around €25. Seasonal routes from across Europe restart in April.
Varna (VAR) and Sofia (SOF)
Varna 2 h · Sofia 4 h by road
Varna has year-round flights and a fast motorway link south. Sofia has the widest choice of connections; the Trakia motorway runs to Burgas in about four hours.
Burgas railway station
Sofia 7 h · Plovdiv 5 h
Direct trains from Sofia and Plovdiv, including an overnight service. The station is on the western edge of the centre, twenty minutes' walk from the Sea Garden.