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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bordeaux or Inverness?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bordeaux for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Bordeaux’s own page.

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux 50, Inverness 20: Bordeaux leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Inverness 36: Bordeaux leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Inverness 27: Bordeaux leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Inverness 28: Bordeaux leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Inverness 56: Bordeaux leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Inverness 55: Bordeaux leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Inverness 48: Bordeaux leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Inverness 30: Bordeaux leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Inverness 38: Bordeaux leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Inverness 33: Bordeaux leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Inverness 30: Bordeaux leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Inverness.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Inverness has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxInverness
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 m7 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxInverness
City population267,99147,380
People per km²5,4252,289
Museums within 10 km183
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.