VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Cork?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BordeauxCork
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
BordeauxCork
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance18 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxCork
Score6850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 32 points.32
BordeauxCork
Score5523
Museums within 10 km3510
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxCork
Score4838
Drinking venues within 4 km546361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7881
Nightclubs within 4 km329
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxCork
Score5152
Protected land share 50 km %35
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8574
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxCork
Score4527
Tourist attractions within 2 km217
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxCork
Score4522
Notable places within 2 km5114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxCork
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxCork
Score6849
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm78 mm to 140 mm
Dry months00
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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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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cork
8
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FaroFAO
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureBordeauxCork
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxCork
City population267,991222,333
People per km²5,4255,961
Museums within 10 km185
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8149
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.