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Bordeaux or Calgary?

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

Calgary
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BordeauxCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Calgary are level on 0.
BordeauxCalgary
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance18 km649 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxCalgary
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975749
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 46 points.46
BordeauxCalgary
Score559
Museums within 10 km358
Museums within 2 km of centre173
Share of museums within 2 km %4938
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxCalgary
Score4844
Drinking venues within 4 km546465
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km3219
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxCalgary
Score5136
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares142 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxCalgary
Score4541
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km43 hectares142 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxCalgary
Score4539
Notable places within 2 km5137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxCalgary
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxCalgary
Score6857
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm9 mm to 106 mm
Dry months08
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxCalgary
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 10 m
no fares
EGC · 87 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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

MeasureBordeauxCalgary
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m1,045 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxCalgary
City population267,9911,306,784
People per km²5,4251,583
Museums within 10 km1813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8167

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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.