VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Florence?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BordeauxFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Florence are level on 0.
BordeauxFlorence
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance18 km78 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxFlorence
Score6859
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 27 points.27
BordeauxFlorence
Score5582
Museums within 10 km35132
Museums within 2 km of centre1793
Share of museums within 2 km %4970
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Florence leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxFlorence
Score4856
Drinking venues within 4 km546818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7873
Nightclubs within 4 km3234
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxFlorence
Score5138
Protected land share 50 km %359
Landscape blanket share 50 km %352
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxFlorence
Score4552
Tourist attractions within 2 km2130
Park area within 2 km43 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 30 points.30
BordeauxFlorence
Score4575
Notable places within 2 km51292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxFlorence
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Bordeaux and Florence are level on 68.
BordeauxFlorence
Score6868
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureBordeauxFlorence
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m50 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxFlorence
City population267,991360,930
People per km²5,4253,528
Museums within 10 km18140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre8162

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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.