VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Geneva?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Geneva
50
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BordeauxGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Geneva are level on 0.
BordeauxGeneva
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km443
Coast distance18 km279 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxGeneva
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 3 points.3
BordeauxGeneva
Score5552
Museums within 10 km3535
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxGeneva
Score4850
Drinking venues within 4 km546549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km3260
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxGeneva
Score5159
Protected land share 50 km %3527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3521
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxGeneva
Score4565
Tourist attractions within 2 km2128
Park area within 2 km43 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxGeneva
Score4556
Notable places within 2 km5199
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 27 points.27
BordeauxGeneva
Score6235
Price level global73.7110.5
Daily budget€160€248
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxGeneva
Score6859
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm55 mm to 94 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
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). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€64-114
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureBordeauxGeneva
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m403 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxGeneva
City population267,991209,061
People per km²5,42513,148
Museums within 10 km1835
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8180

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bordeaux or Geneva somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.