VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Maastricht?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BordeauxMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Maastricht are level on 0.
BordeauxMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance18 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 20 points.20
BordeauxMaastricht
Score6848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxMaastricht
Score5553
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre1713
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxMaastricht
Score4830
Drinking venues within 4 km546223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7882
Nightclubs within 4 km3213
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxMaastricht
Score5137
Protected land share 50 km %3519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3511
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxMaastricht
Score4546
Tourist attractions within 2 km2115
Park area within 2 km43 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxMaastricht
Score4536
Notable places within 2 km5132
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxMaastricht
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxMaastricht
Score6859
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm41 mm to 84 mm
Dry months00
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
CRL · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 85 km
Fort-de-FranceFDF
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 90 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

MeasureBordeauxMaastricht
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation1 m49 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxMaastricht
City population267,991120,227
People per km²5,4252,000
Museums within 10 km1821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8133

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bordeaux or Maastricht somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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.