VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Izmir?

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 nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BordeauxIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
BordeauxIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxIzmir
Score6849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3212
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxIzmir
Score5543
Museums within 10 km3547
Museums within 2 km of centre1727
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxIzmir
Score4862
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km3270
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 22 points.22
BordeauxIzmir
Score5129
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8584
Park area within 2 km43 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxIzmir
Score4535
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km43 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxIzmir
Score4540
Notable places within 2 km5139
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
BordeauxIzmir
Score6289
Price level global73.735.2
Daily budget€160€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxIzmir
Score6872
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBordeauxIzmir
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxIzmir
City population267,9914,493,242
People per km²5,4254,760
Museums within 10 km1829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8120
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. 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.