VacationSelector

Bordeaux or London?

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 value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BordeauxLondon
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and London are level on 0.
BordeauxLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km447
Coast distance18 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxLondon
Score6888
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9753,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3240
Museums & heritage. London leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxLondon
Score5572
Museums within 10 km35148
Museums within 2 km of centre1749
Share of museums within 2 km %4933
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. London leads by 47 points.47
BordeauxLondon
Score4895
Drinking venues within 4 km5465,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4272,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7846
Nightclubs within 4 km32312
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxLondon
Score5140
Protected land share 50 km %3516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3514
Land share of disc %8597
Park area within 2 km43 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 30 points.30
BordeauxLondon
Score4575
Tourist attractions within 2 km2185
Park area within 2 km43 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. London leads by 44 points.44
BordeauxLondon
Score4589
Notable places within 2 km51649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxLondon
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxLondon
Score6863
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months01
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxLondon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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

MeasureBordeauxLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxLondon
City population267,9918,799,728
People per km²5,4255,598
Museums within 10 km18215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre81116

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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.