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Bordeaux or Cairo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
Bordeaux

Photo: Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Cairo
50
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BordeauxCairo
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux leads by 40 points.40
Food & drink. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 28 points.28
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux leads by 28 points.28
Day trips. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
Getting around. Bordeaux leads by 41 points.41
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 2 points.2
Affordability. Cairo leads by 53 points.53
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Cairo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBordeauxCairo
Daytime high27 °C36 °C
Night-time low16 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month47 mm0 mm
Sunshine8 hours a day12 hours a day
Daylight15 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxCairo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€267-335
CAI · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€280-302
CAI · 17 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

MeasureBordeauxCairo
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation1 m23 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxCairo
City population267,9919,801,536
People per km²5,42518,564
Museums within 10 km1848
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42

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Sources

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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.