VacationSelector

Bath or Bordeaux?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BathBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathBordeaux
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance29 km18 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 22 points.22
BathBordeaux
Score4668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245975
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BathBordeaux
Score4755
Museums within 10 km2035
Museums within 2 km of centre1417
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BathBordeaux
Score3648
Drinking venues within 4 km320546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km1132
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 7 points.7
BathBordeaux
Score4451
Protected land share 50 km %2835
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2735
Land share of disc %9285
Park area within 2 km45 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BathBordeaux
Score4045
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km45 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BathBordeaux
Score3245
Notable places within 2 km2551
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BathBordeaux
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BathBordeaux
Score5568
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
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
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathBordeaux
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
LyonLYS
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBathBordeaux
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m1 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBordeaux
City population94,092267,991
People per km²3,2455,425
Museums within 10 km1718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3881
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). 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.