VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Monaco?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BordeauxMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
BordeauxMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km450
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 29 points.29
BordeauxMonaco
Score6839
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3216
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxMonaco
Score5538
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %4935
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 40 points.40
BordeauxMonaco
Score488
Drinking venues within 4 km54669
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7891
Nightclubs within 4 km327
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxMonaco
Score5153
Protected land share 50 km %3524
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3517
Land share of disc %8554
Park area within 2 km43 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxMonaco
Score4535
Tourist attractions within 2 km2114
Park area within 2 km43 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxMonaco
Score4564
Notable places within 2 km51154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxMonaco
Score6874
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxMonaco
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureBordeauxMonaco
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m68 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxMonaco
City population267,99138,857
People per km²5,42518,503
Museums within 10 km1814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8129
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.