VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Heidelberg?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

BordeauxHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Heidelberg are level on 0.
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance18 km406 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 21 points.21
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score6847
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3226
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score5559
Museums within 10 km3554
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %4943
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 21 points.21
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score4827
Drinking venues within 4 km546201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km328
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score5174
Protected land share 50 km %3552
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3522
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score4543
Tourist attractions within 2 km2129
Park area within 2 km43 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score4536
Notable places within 2 km5131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxHeidelberg
Score6861
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm45 mm to 80 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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Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
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). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxHeidelberg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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

MeasureBordeauxHeidelberg
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 m114 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxHeidelberg
City population267,991162,960
People per km²5,4251,496
Museums within 10 km1817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre8145

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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.