VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Catania?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Catania
✓ Best match
52
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.

BordeauxCatania
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
BordeauxCatania
Score058
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km45
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxCatania
Score6849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxCatania
Score5559
Museums within 10 km3534
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %4979
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxCatania
Score4847
Drinking venues within 4 km546537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7875
Nightclubs within 4 km3218
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxCatania
Score5131
Protected land share 50 km %3510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8561
Park area within 2 km43 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxCatania
Score4536
Tourist attractions within 2 km2125
Park area within 2 km43 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxCatania
Score4539
Notable places within 2 km5137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxCatania
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxCatania
Score6877
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxCatania
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
REG · 80 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 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

MeasureBordeauxCatania
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m7 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxCatania
City population267,991311,584
People per km²5,4251,704
Museums within 10 km1825
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8130
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.