VacationSelector

Bordeaux or La Spezia?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
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.

BordeauxLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km432
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 37 points.37
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score6831
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score5542
Museums within 10 km3515
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %4967
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score4824
Drinking venues within 4 km546208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7885
Nightclubs within 4 km321
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score5152
Protected land share 50 km %3513
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8551
Park area within 2 km43 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 25 points.25
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score4520
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km43 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 38 points.38
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score457
Notable places within 2 km516
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxLa Spezia
Score6870
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 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

MeasureBordeauxLa Spezia
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m3 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxLa Spezia
City population267,99192,119
People per km²5,4251,792
Museums within 10 km1812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8122
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.