VacationSelector

Antwerp or Bordeaux?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

AntwerpBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Bordeaux are level on 0.
AntwerpBordeaux
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance21 km18 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpBordeaux
Score7568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164975
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4232
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpBordeaux
Score6955
Museums within 10 km4135
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %6649
Unesco sites within 50 km94
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpBordeaux
Score5948
Drinking venues within 4 km866546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7678
Nightclubs within 4 km7332
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpBordeaux
Score3451
Protected land share 50 km %735
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %8085
Park area within 2 km53 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpBordeaux
Score4645
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km53 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 9 points.9
AntwerpBordeaux
Score5445
Notable places within 2 km8851
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpBordeaux
Score6062
Price level global76.273.7
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
AntwerpBordeaux
Score5868
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm47 mm to 114 mm
Dry months00
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpBordeaux
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 36 km
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
LyonLYS
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 35 m
no fares
CRL · 85 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
NiceNCE
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 36 km
7 h 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAntwerpBordeaux
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m1 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBordeaux
City population529,247267,991
People per km²2,5425,425
Museums within 10 km3818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km94
Distinct cuisines in the centre8081

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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.