VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Galway?

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 museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Galway
39
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.

BordeauxGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
BordeauxGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km413
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 31 points.31
BordeauxGalway
Score6837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3220
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 35 points.35
BordeauxGalway
Score5520
Museums within 10 km355
Museums within 2 km of centre175
Share of museums within 2 km %49100
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 22 points.22
BordeauxGalway
Score4826
Drinking venues within 4 km546185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km328
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxGalway
Score5155
Protected land share 50 km %35
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8585
Park area within 2 km43 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxGalway
Score4525
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km43 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxGalway
Score4522
Notable places within 2 km5114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxGalway
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxGalway
Score6854
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
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). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 30 m
€154-179
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FaroFAO
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 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

MeasureBordeauxGalway
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 m25 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxGalway
City population267,99183,456
People per km²5,4251,563
Museums within 10 km184
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8125
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.