VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Bruges?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

BordeauxBruges
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxBruges
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance18 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxBruges
Score6857
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975443
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3232
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxBruges
Score5557
Museums within 10 km3530
Museums within 2 km of centre1724
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxBruges
Score4834
Drinking venues within 4 km546292
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427233
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7880
Nightclubs within 4 km328
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
BordeauxBruges
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %352
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8565
Park area within 2 km43 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxBruges
Score4560
Tourist attractions within 2 km2152
Park area within 2 km43 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxBruges
Score4540
Notable places within 2 km5140
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxBruges
Score6260
Price level global73.776.2
Daily budget€160€180
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxBruges
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months01
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxBruges
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
AlgiersALG
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBordeauxBruges
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxBruges
City population267,991118,509
People per km²5,425840
Museums within 10 km1838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8151
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. 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.