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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Bordeaux or Florence?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bordeaux for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Bordeaux’s own page.

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux 50, Florence 14: Bordeaux leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Florence 74: Bordeaux leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Florence 94: Florence leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Florence 42: Bordeaux leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux and Florence are level on 58.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Florence 98: Florence leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Florence 45: Bordeaux leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Florence 78: Florence leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Florence 72: Florence leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Florence 35: Bordeaux leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Florence 58: Florence leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Florence 42: Florence leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Florence.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bordeaux
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Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Florence
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre95 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 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 km18141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.