VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Los Angeles?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BordeauxLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance18 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score5549
Museums within 10 km3569
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %4933
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score4854
Drinking venues within 4 km546660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km3264
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score5162
Protected land share 50 km %3526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8580
Park area within 2 km43 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score4533
Tourist attractions within 2 km2111
Park area within 2 km43 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score4554
Notable places within 2 km5188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxLos Angeles
Score6887
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months08
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Los Angeles
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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxLos Angeles
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
CasablancaCMN
2 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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

MeasureBordeauxLos Angeles
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m106 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxLos Angeles
City population267,9913,898,747
People per km²5,4252,994
Museums within 10 km1838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8146
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.