VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

BordeauxRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
BordeauxRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance18 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxRotterdam
Score6872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3246
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxRotterdam
Score5560
Museums within 10 km3541
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %4949
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxRotterdam
Score4849
Drinking venues within 4 km546542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km3240
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxRotterdam
Score5142
Protected land share 50 km %3510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8579
Park area within 2 km43 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxRotterdam
Score4562
Tourist attractions within 2 km2127
Park area within 2 km43 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxRotterdam
Score4551
Notable places within 2 km5174
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxRotterdam
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxRotterdam
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureBordeauxRotterdam
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxRotterdam
City population267,991664,311
People per km²5,4252,080
Museums within 10 km1840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8177
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.