VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Glasgow?

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

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BordeauxGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
BordeauxGlasgow
Score036
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance18 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxGlasgow
Score6863
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxGlasgow
Score5545
Museums within 10 km3532
Museums within 2 km of centre1713
Share of museums within 2 km %4941
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxGlasgow
Score4863
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7861
Nightclubs within 4 km3273
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxGlasgow
Score5138
Protected land share 50 km %3516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3512
Land share of disc %8591
Park area within 2 km43 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxGlasgow
Score4541
Tourist attractions within 2 km2113
Park area within 2 km43 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxGlasgow
Score4553
Notable places within 2 km5180
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxGlasgow
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
BordeauxGlasgow
Score6843
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm102 mm to 207 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 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

MeasureBordeauxGlasgow
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation1 m21 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxGlasgow
City population267,991626,410
People per km²5,425190
Museums within 10 km1829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8154
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. 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.