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Berlin or Bordeaux?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Bordeaux
49
match

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

BerlinBordeaux
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Bordeaux are level on 0.
BerlinBordeaux
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance142 km18 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 2 points.2
BerlinBordeaux
Score7068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117975
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3332
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BerlinBordeaux
Score7955
Museums within 10 km20035
Museums within 2 km of centre8117
Share of museums within 2 km %4149
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 28 points.28
BerlinBordeaux
Score7648
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3478
Nightclubs within 4 km13532
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BerlinBordeaux
Score4951
Protected land share 50 km %2035
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1635
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km141 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 31 points.31
BerlinBordeaux
Score7645
Tourist attractions within 2 km5421
Park area within 2 km141 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 39 points.39
BerlinBordeaux
Score8445
Notable places within 2 km48651
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BerlinBordeaux
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BerlinBordeaux
Score6068
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C10.5 °C to 27.6 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBordeaux
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
LyonLYS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 0 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinBordeaux
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m1 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBordeaux
City population3,782,202267,991
People per km²4,2445,425
Museums within 10 km15818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre8681

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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.