VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Ghent?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Ghent
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BordeauxGhent
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
BordeauxGhent
Score026
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km48
Coast distance18 km32 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxGhent
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3249
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
BordeauxGhent
Score5558
Museums within 10 km3524
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %4983
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxGhent
Score4849
Drinking venues within 4 km546570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km3226
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxGhent
Score5134
Protected land share 50 km %357
Landscape blanket share 50 km %354
Land share of disc %8587
Park area within 2 km43 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxGhent
Score4550
Tourist attractions within 2 km2119
Park area within 2 km43 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxGhent
Score4546
Notable places within 2 km5155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxGhent
Score6260
Price level global73.776.2
Daily budget€160€180
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxGhent
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months01
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxGhent
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 56 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

MeasureBordeauxGhent
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m12 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxGhent
City population267,991272,657
People per km²5,4251,728
Museums within 10 km1830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8183
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.