VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Genoa?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BordeauxGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
BordeauxGenoa
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km437
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxGenoa
Score6850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux and Genoa are level on 55.
BordeauxGenoa
Score5555
Museums within 10 km3547
Museums within 2 km of centre1733
Share of museums within 2 km %4970
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxGenoa
Score4850
Drinking venues within 4 km546637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7866
Nightclubs within 4 km3217
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxGenoa
Score5135
Protected land share 50 km %358
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8561
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxGenoa
Score4538
Tourist attractions within 2 km2121
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxGenoa
Score4561
Notable places within 2 km51130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxGenoa
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxGenoa
Score6873
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months03
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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Genoa
9
10
12
13
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
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxGenoa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GOA · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
3 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 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

MeasureBordeauxGenoa
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 m20 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxGenoa
City population267,991558,745
People per km²5,4252,325
Museums within 10 km1851
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8141
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.