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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bordeaux or Sorrento?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’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, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Sorrento 60: Bordeaux leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Sorrento 32: Bordeaux leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Sorrento 28: Bordeaux leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Sorrento 42: Bordeaux leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Sorrento 58: Bordeaux leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Sorrento 38: Bordeaux leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Sorrento 32: Bordeaux leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Sorrento 20: Bordeaux leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sorrento 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.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxSorrento
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m50 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxSorrento
City population267,99115,407
People per km²5,4251,541
Museums within 10 km186
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. 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. 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.