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Bordeaux or Milan?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BordeauxMilan
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Milan are level on 0.
BordeauxMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance18 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxMilan
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3220
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxMilan
Score5574
Museums within 10 km3587
Museums within 2 km of centre1755
Share of museums within 2 km %4963
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Milan leads by 27 points.27
BordeauxMilan
Score4875
Drinking venues within 4 km5462,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km3270
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxMilan
Score5165
Protected land share 50 km %3530
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3511
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 32 points.32
BordeauxMilan
Score4577
Tourist attractions within 2 km2176
Park area within 2 km43 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 29 points.29
BordeauxMilan
Score4574
Notable places within 2 km51266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxMilan
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxMilan
Score6864
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm44 mm to 127 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxMilan
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 40 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureBordeauxMilan
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m138 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxMilan
City population267,9911,354,196
People per km²5,4257,453
Museums within 10 km1887
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre8179

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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. 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.