VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Dubai?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BordeauxDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
BordeauxDubai
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km452
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxDubai
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3226
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxDubai
Score5538
Museums within 10 km3526
Museums within 2 km of centre1718
Share of museums within 2 km %4969
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxDubai
Score4853
Drinking venues within 4 km546601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7851
Nightclubs within 4 km3284
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 33 points.33
BordeauxDubai
Score5118
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8552
Park area within 2 km43 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxDubai
Score4549
Tourist attractions within 2 km2137
Park area within 2 km43 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxDubai
Score4537
Notable places within 2 km5133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxDubai
Score6269
Price level global73.763.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxDubai
Score6866
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Dubai
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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxDubai
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 15 m
€237-344
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
DXB · 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

MeasureBordeauxDubai
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxDubai
City population267,9913,944,751
People per km²5,425
Museums within 10 km1814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8152
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.