VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Edinburgh?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BordeauxEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance18 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score5557
Museums within 10 km3530
Museums within 2 km of centre1722
Share of museums within 2 km %4973
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score4864
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km3265
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score5135
Protected land share 50 km %352
Landscape blanket share 50 km %351
Land share of disc %8585
Park area within 2 km43 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 27 points.27
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score4572
Tourist attractions within 2 km2187
Park area within 2 km43 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score4560
Notable places within 2 km51126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxEdinburgh
Score6851
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm43 mm to 80 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
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A
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O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxEdinburgh
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureBordeauxEdinburgh
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation1 m47 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxEdinburgh
City population267,991488,050
People per km²5,4251,884
Museums within 10 km1832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8178
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.