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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Bordeaux or Petra?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bordeaux for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Bordeaux’s own page.

Choose Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux 50, Petra 5: Bordeaux leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Petra 22: Bordeaux leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Petra 85: Petra leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Petra 5: Bordeaux leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Petra 78: Petra leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Petra 30: Bordeaux leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Petra 25: Bordeaux leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Petra 25: Bordeaux leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Petra 18: Bordeaux leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Petra 45: Petra leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Petra 10: Bordeaux leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Petra 28: Bordeaux leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Petra.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxPetra
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m850 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxPetra
City population267,991-
People per km²5,425-
Museums within 10 km182
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.