VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Cadiz?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BordeauxCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
BordeauxCadiz
Score070
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km429
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxCadiz
Score6844
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3218
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxCadiz
Score5536
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre1716
Share of museums within 2 km %4970
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxCadiz
Score4830
Drinking venues within 4 km546241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7873
Nightclubs within 4 km326
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
BordeauxCadiz
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8545
Park area within 2 km43 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxCadiz
Score4554
Tourist attractions within 2 km2180
Park area within 2 km43 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxCadiz
Score4531
Notable places within 2 km5123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxCadiz
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxCadiz
Score6883
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm0 mm to 89 mm
Dry months05
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxCadiz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€157-201
1 stop
SVQ · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TNG · 95 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

MeasureBordeauxCadiz
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m11 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxCadiz
City population267,991109,950
People per km²5,4259,087
Museums within 10 km1811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8128
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.