VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BordeauxQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Quebec City are level on 0.
BordeauxQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance18 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxQuebec City
Score6855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxQuebec City
Score5546
Museums within 10 km3526
Museums within 2 km of centre1719
Share of museums within 2 km %4973
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxQuebec City
Score4831
Drinking venues within 4 km546250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km328
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxQuebec City
Score5143
Protected land share 50 km %357
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxQuebec City
Score4550
Tourist attractions within 2 km2112
Park area within 2 km43 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxQuebec City
Score4543
Notable places within 2 km5147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxQuebec City
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 22 points.22
BordeauxQuebec City
Score6846
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm79 mm to 123 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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Fort-de-FranceFDF
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Pointe-a-pitrePTP
8 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 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

MeasureBordeauxQuebec City
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m98 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxQuebec City
City population267,991574,482
People per km²5,4251,184
Museums within 10 km1816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8147

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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.