VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Mexico City?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BordeauxMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Mexico City are level on 0.
BordeauxMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance18 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxMexico City
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9752,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxMexico City
Score5579
Museums within 10 km35138
Museums within 2 km of centre1765
Share of museums within 2 km %4947
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 30 points.30
BordeauxMexico City
Score4878
Drinking venues within 4 km5462,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km32198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxMexico City
Score5163
Protected land share 50 km %3530
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxMexico City
Score4550
Tourist attractions within 2 km2123
Park area within 2 km43 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxMexico City
Score4554
Notable places within 2 km5188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxMexico City
Score6276
Price level global73.754.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
BordeauxMexico City
Score6890
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxMexico City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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

MeasureBordeauxMexico City
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m2,240 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxMexico City
City population267,9919,209,944
People per km²5,4256,202
Museums within 10 km18108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre8150

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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.