VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Dresden?

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, 1 point apart

Bordeaux
49
match

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

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BordeauxDresden
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Dresden are level on 0.
BordeauxDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance18 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxDresden
Score6861
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3242
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxDresden
Score5554
Museums within 10 km3566
Museums within 2 km of centre1734
Share of museums within 2 km %4952
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxDresden
Score4842
Drinking venues within 4 km546359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km3243
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxDresden
Score5139
Protected land share 50 km %3514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %359
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxDresden
Score4559
Tourist attractions within 2 km2132
Park area within 2 km43 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxDresden
Score4553
Notable places within 2 km5182
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxDresden
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxDresden
Score6862
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dresden
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
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). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
DRS · 10 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

MeasureBordeauxDresden
Official languageFrenchGerman
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 m126 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxDresden
City population267,991564,904
People per km²5,4251,720
Museums within 10 km1870
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8177

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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. 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.