VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Dublin?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BordeauxDublin
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
BordeauxDublin
Score049
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km411
Coast distance18 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxDublin
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975920
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux and Dublin are level on 55.
BordeauxDublin
Score5555
Museums within 10 km3547
Museums within 2 km of centre1737
Share of museums within 2 km %4979
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxDublin
Score4864
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,239
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427934
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7875
Nightclubs within 4 km3240
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
BordeauxDublin
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %353
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8562
Park area within 2 km43 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxDublin
Score4554
Tourist attractions within 2 km2141
Park area within 2 km43 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxDublin
Score4562
Notable places within 2 km51141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxDublin
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxDublin
Score6854
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C8.2 °C to 19.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm52 mm to 83 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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Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Dublin
2
3
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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxDublin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€93-114
DUB · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 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

MeasureBordeauxDublin
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 m20 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxDublin
City population267,991592,713
People per km²5,4255,154
Museums within 10 km1840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8174
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.