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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Bordeaux or Limassol?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’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, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Limassol 58: Bordeaux leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Limassol 38: Bordeaux leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux and Limassol are level on 50.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Limassol 65: Limassol leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Limassol 76: Bordeaux leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Limassol 38: Bordeaux leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Limassol 42: Bordeaux leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Limassol 32: Bordeaux leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Limassol.

Your match

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

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Limassol
52match

Wins on beaches and 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

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Limassol 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.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxLimassol
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxLimassol
City population267,991107,970
People per km²5,4252,405
Museums within 10 km182
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.