VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Fort Lauderdale?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

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

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score6845
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3218
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 35 points.35
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score5520
Museums within 10 km3514
Museums within 2 km of centre176
Share of museums within 2 km %4943
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score4834
Drinking venues within 4 km546259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km3218
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 30 points.30
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score5181
Protected land share 50 km %3520
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8551
Park area within 2 km43 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 26 points.26
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score4519
Tourist attractions within 2 km212
Park area within 2 km43 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 45 points.45
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score450
Notable places within 2 km512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxFort Lauderdale
Score6876
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
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
Fort Lauderdale
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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxFort Lauderdale
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
Fort-de-FranceFDF
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureBordeauxFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m11 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxFort Lauderdale
City population267,991182,760
People per km²5,4251,829
Museums within 10 km186
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8125
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. 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.