VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Hamburg?

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

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BordeauxHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Hamburg are level on 0.
BordeauxHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km416
Coast distance18 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxHamburg
Score6873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3238
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxHamburg
Score5560
Museums within 10 km3594
Museums within 2 km of centre1750
Share of museums within 2 km %4953
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxHamburg
Score4868
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km32119
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxHamburg
Score5140
Protected land share 50 km %3514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3510
Land share of disc %8599
Park area within 2 km43 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxHamburg
Score4560
Tourist attractions within 2 km2140
Park area within 2 km43 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxHamburg
Score4559
Notable places within 2 km51118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxHamburg
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxHamburg
Score6855
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxHamburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 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

MeasureBordeauxHamburg
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m6 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxHamburg
City population267,9911,910,160
People per km²5,4252,530
Museums within 10 km1877
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8183

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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. 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.