Thrift stores in Sofia

If you like the hunt, Sofia, Sofia City is worth a wander: 9 second-hand and charity shops are mapped here. 1 of them are charity shops and 8 are independent second-hand stores, so Sofia gives you both flavours of thrifting in one trip.

This guide covers every thrift store we could verify in and around Sofia (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Емир Джан and Humana, plus The 2nd 🖐️Shop — each with its own personality, which is half the fun. If a shop's missing from Sofia's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Sofia thrift lineup

9 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Sofia

3 of the 9 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Sofia — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Sofia; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

The one mapped shop sits on 82 Първа българска армия — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Sofia thrift circuit

The efficient Sofia thrifting route strings these together: Емир Джан, Humana, The 2nd 🖐️Shop, Бяла техника втора употреба, Дрехи, Rebay, Humana, and ВАТРА ХОУМ Бидони on 82 Първа българска армия — 9 shops, one logical loop, no backtracking. 1 more are listed below.

Thrifting tips for Sofia

A few things worth knowing before you work through Sofia's thrift stores:

• Check for matching sets at Емир Джан. Single plates and glasses are easy; full sets are the prize. Scan the whole shelf — mates hide behind other stock.
• Smell the leather at Humana. Real leather smells like leather. If it smells like plastic, it is plastic — price it accordingly.
• Cash still talks. Some small shops prefer cash and a few will deal a little on big items if you're paying cash. Worth having some on you.
• Go early in the week. Donations land on weekends, so Monday and Tuesday shelves are the freshly stocked ones. By Saturday the good stuff is gone.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Sofia — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to for a thrifting run. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new shop in Sofia can take a while to appear. The 9 above are only as current as the community map. A shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

Prices at Sofia's thrift stores are set by each shop and change constantly, so we don't list them. As a rough rule, charity shops are the cheapest, independents sit in the middle, and anything labelled vintage costs more everywhere — Sofia included.