VacationSelector

Beijing or Bordeaux?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

BeijingBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Bordeaux are level on 0.
BeijingBordeaux
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance145 km18 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 8 points.8
BeijingBordeaux
Score6355
Museums within 10 km9535
Museums within 2 km of centre1517
Share of museums within 2 km %1649
Unesco sites within 50 km64
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 16 points.16
BeijingBordeaux
Score3551
Protected land share 50 km %335
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km143 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 32 points.32
BeijingBordeaux
Score7745
Tourist attractions within 2 km4121
Park area within 2 km143 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km121
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 5 points.5
BeijingBordeaux
Score5045
Notable places within 2 km6951
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 17 points.17
BeijingBordeaux
Score7962
Price level global4973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BeijingBordeaux
Score6668
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm47 mm to 114 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingBordeaux
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
GenevaGVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
LisbonLIS
12 h 5 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 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

MeasureBeijingBordeaux
Official languagePutonghuaFrench
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m1 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingBordeaux
City population21,893,095267,991
People per km²1,3345,425
Museums within 10 km8318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre2981

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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.