VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Bucharest?

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 nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

BordeauxBucharest
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Bucharest are level on 0.
BordeauxBucharest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance18 km198 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxBucharest
Score6867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975667
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3241
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxBucharest
Score5549
Museums within 10 km3573
Museums within 2 km of centre1740
Share of museums within 2 km %4955
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxBucharest
Score4862
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,017
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427541
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7853
Nightclubs within 4 km3280
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxBucharest
Score5136
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares133 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxBucharest
Score4568
Tourist attractions within 2 km2145
Park area within 2 km43 hectares133 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxBucharest
Score4561
Notable places within 2 km51130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxBucharest
Score6285
Price level global73.740.9
Daily budget€160€99
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxBucharest
Score6863
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C2.8 °C to 30.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm33 mm to 82 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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
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). Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxBucharest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 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

MeasureBordeauxBucharest
Official languageFrenchRomanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m70 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxBucharest
City population267,9911,716,961
People per km²5,4257,597
Museums within 10 km1841
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8168

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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. 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.