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Bordeaux or Krakow?

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.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BordeauxKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Krakow are level on 0.
BordeauxKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance18 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux and Krakow are level on 68.
BordeauxKrakow
Score6868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3230
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxKrakow
Score5575
Museums within 10 km3584
Museums within 2 km of centre1769
Share of museums within 2 km %4982
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxKrakow
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km546836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km3254
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxKrakow
Score5146
Protected land share 50 km %3514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %351
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 29 points.29
BordeauxKrakow
Score4574
Tourist attractions within 2 km2177
Park area within 2 km43 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxKrakow
Score4568
Notable places within 2 km51198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxKrakow
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxKrakow
Score6858
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months04
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureBordeauxKrakow
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m219 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxKrakow
City population267,991804,237
People per km²5,4252,459
Museums within 10 km18114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre8168

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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. 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.