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Bordeaux or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BordeauxTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
BordeauxTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance18 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxTampa
Score6854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 28 points.28
BordeauxTampa
Score5527
Museums within 10 km3513
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %4977
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxTampa
Score4839
Drinking venues within 4 km546324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km3226
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 21 points.21
BordeauxTampa
Score5130
Protected land share 50 km %356
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8572
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxTampa
Score4530
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km43 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxTampa
Score4521
Notable places within 2 km5113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxTampa
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxTampa
Score6875
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxTampa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureBordeauxTampa
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m30 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxTampa
City population267,991384,959
People per km²5,425848
Museums within 10 km186
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8147
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months

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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.