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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bordeaux or Breckenridge?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bordeaux for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Bordeaux’s own page.

Choose Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Breckenridge’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux 50, Breckenridge 4: Bordeaux leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Breckenridge 33: Bordeaux leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Breckenridge 20: Bordeaux leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Breckenridge 30: Bordeaux leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Breckenridge 90: Breckenridge leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Breckenridge 44: Bordeaux leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Breckenridge 60: Breckenridge leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Breckenridge 62: Bordeaux leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Breckenridge 25: Bordeaux leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Breckenridge 10: Bordeaux leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Breckenridge 32: Bordeaux leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Breckenridge 30: Bordeaux leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Breckenridge.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxBreckenridge
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m2,926 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxBreckenridge
City population267,9915,078
People per km²5,425332
Museums within 10 km180
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.