VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Strasbourg?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Bordeaux if you want the museums, the wider choice of bars and clubs, and the warmer year, with summer highs near 28°C and shoulder months that still work.

Choose Strasbourg if you would rather walk to most of what you came for: notable places sit closer together around the centre, with more park space and drier winter months.

Scoreboard

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

BordeauxStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Strasbourg are level on 0.
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance18 km398 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score6867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score5541
Museums within 10 km3523
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %4961
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score4836
Drinking venues within 4 km546305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7887
Nightclubs within 4 km3217
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 3 points.3
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score5154
Protected land share 50 km %3537
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3535
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score4538
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km43 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score4558
Notable places within 2 km51109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux and Strasbourg are level on 62.
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxStrasbourg
Score6863
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Bordeaux has about twice as many museums as Strasbourg, and four UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against one. Its drinking and clubbing scene is roughly double the size, most of it near the centre, and it holds more tourist attractions close in. Days run warmer, 11-28°C across the year.

Strasbourg packs about twice as many notable places into walking distance of the centre, and its museums cluster tightly there too. It also has about twice as much park space near the middle, and highs of 5-26°C.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination. Both have bathing spots nearby, 9 near Strasbourg and 4 near Bordeaux, but neither sees a month of water at 21°C or more, so swimming is not a reason to pick either.

Eating out is close to level: a similar range of kitchens, with Bordeaux holding somewhat more restaurants near the centre. Green space and day trips are close too, with 35% of the land around Bordeaux protected against 37% around Strasbourg.

Which traveller are you?

If you travel for museums and old towns, Bordeaux: roughly twice the museum count and four UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against one, enough to fill several days without repeating yourself.

For a short break on foot, Strasbourg: about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and its museums sit close together, so a weekend needs little planning and no transport.

Families face a trade: Bordeaux has about twice as many tourist attractions near the centre, Strasbourg about twice as much park space, and each has one theme park within reach. Bordeaux's milder winter helps too.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level applied to both cities, so it is identical by construction and tells you nothing about which trip costs less. The daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either place; treat both as a rough guide and check real prices for your dates.

Beach counts are the other trap. Both list swimming spots nearby, but neither has a month with water at 21°C or more, and neither city is on the coast. Strasbourg's dry winter months are also its coldest, at 5-7°C.

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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
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D
Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bordeaux's window is long: from June to September highs sit at 24-28°C, and midsummer is its driest stretch, near 47mm. Late autumn is the weak point, with over 100mm falling in November.

Strasbourg peaks from June to August at 24-26°C, with rain spread through summer. Its winter is drier, 34-39mm a month early in the year, but highs of 5-7°C make it an indoor trip, where Bordeaux stays nearer 11°C and can be walked in comfort.

Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxStrasbourg
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureBordeauxStrasbourg
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m132 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxStrasbourg
City population267,991293,771
People per km²5,4253,752
Museums within 10 km1821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8187

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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. 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.