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Bordeaux or Philadelphia?

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, 2 points apart

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BordeauxPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Philadelphia are level on 0.
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance18 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score6877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score5560
Museums within 10 km3589
Museums within 2 km of centre1748
Share of museums within 2 km %4954
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score4859
Drinking venues within 4 km546930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km3241
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score5149
Protected land share 50 km %3514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8589
Park area within 2 km43 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score4553
Tourist attractions within 2 km2116
Park area within 2 km43 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score4554
Notable places within 2 km5188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxPhiladelphia
Score6860
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxPhiladelphia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureBordeauxPhiladelphia
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m12 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxPhiladelphia
City population267,9911,603,797
People per km²5,4254,339
Museums within 10 km1854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8175

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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.