VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Boston?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BordeauxBoston
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BordeauxBoston
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km468
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxBoston
Score6873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,452
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3232
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxBoston
Score5543
Museums within 10 km3579
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %4934
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Boston leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxBoston
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km546886
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427513
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7858
Nightclubs within 4 km3243
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxBoston
Score5153
Protected land share 50 km %3512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8577
Park area within 2 km43 hectares116 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxBoston
Score4553
Tourist attractions within 2 km2128
Park area within 2 km43 hectares116 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxBoston
Score4558
Notable places within 2 km51111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxBoston
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxBoston
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C2.9 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm79 mm to 107 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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxBoston
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBordeauxBoston
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m43 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxBoston
City population267,991675,647
People per km²5,4252,910
Museums within 10 km1851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8174
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.