VacationSelector

Aarhus or Bordeaux?

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

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusBordeaux
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km284
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
AarhusBordeaux
Score5368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427975
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
AarhusBordeaux
Score3855
Museums within 10 km2635
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %7749
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
AarhusBordeaux
Score4048
Drinking venues within 4 km382546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km1532
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 23 points.23
AarhusBordeaux
Score2851
Protected land share 50 km %235
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %6885
Park area within 2 km72 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
AarhusBordeaux
Score3345
Tourist attractions within 2 km621
Park area within 2 km72 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
AarhusBordeaux
Score3745
Notable places within 2 km3351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
AarhusBordeaux
Score5262
Price level global87.873.7
Daily budget€214€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
AarhusBordeaux
Score5368
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm47 mm to 114 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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Daytime high, °C
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusBordeaux
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAarhusBordeaux
Official languageDanishFrench
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m1 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusBordeaux
City population290,598267,991
People per km²3,1935,425
Museums within 10 km1718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3781
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.