VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Palermo?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
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.

BordeauxPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
BordeauxPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km413
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxPalermo
Score6850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3213
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxPalermo
Score5550
Museums within 10 km3532
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %4981
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxPalermo
Score4853
Drinking venues within 4 km546799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km3216
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxPalermo
Score5136
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8545
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxPalermo
Score4541
Tourist attractions within 2 km2116
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxPalermo
Score4557
Notable places within 2 km51104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxPalermo
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxPalermo
Score6877
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€131-137
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureBordeauxPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxPalermo
City population267,991630,167
People per km²5,4253,924
Museums within 10 km1842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8133
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.