VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BordeauxSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
BordeauxSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4100
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxSeattle
Score6875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxSeattle
Score5536
Museums within 10 km3528
Museums within 2 km of centre1717
Share of museums within 2 km %4961
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxSeattle
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km546873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7880
Nightclubs within 4 km3234
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 11 points.11
BordeauxSeattle
Score5140
Protected land share 50 km %359
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8580
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxSeattle
Score4546
Tourist attractions within 2 km2117
Park area within 2 km43 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxSeattle
Score4552
Notable places within 2 km5176
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxSeattle
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxSeattle
Score6861
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
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
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxSeattle
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€237-323
BOD · 11 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
YYJ · 142 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

MeasureBordeauxSeattle
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m40 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxSeattle
City population267,991737,015
People per km²5,4251,996
Museums within 10 km1827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8178
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. 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.