VacationSelector

Atlanta or Bordeaux?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on nightlife with your weighting.

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

AtlantaBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Bordeaux are level on 0.
AtlantaBordeaux
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance373 km18 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaBordeaux
Score5968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739975
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2332
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaBordeaux
Score3555
Museums within 10 km4135
Museums within 2 km of centre1617
Share of museums within 2 km %3949
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaBordeaux
Score4948
Drinking venues within 4 km531546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km4632
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaBordeaux
Score3151
Protected land share 50 km %135
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km113 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaBordeaux
Score3245
Tourist attractions within 2 km221
Park area within 2 km113 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaBordeaux
Score4045
Notable places within 2 km3951
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaBordeaux
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaBordeaux
Score6768
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBordeaux
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
NiceNCE
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
DublinDUB
8 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 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

MeasureAtlantaBordeaux
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m1 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBordeaux
City population498,715267,991
People per km²1,4335,425
Museums within 10 km2718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre5681

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.