VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Tirana?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

BordeauxTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance18 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxTirana
Score6855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 30 points.30
BordeauxTirana
Score5525
Museums within 10 km3512
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %4967
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxTirana
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km546945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km3229
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxTirana
Score5149
Protected land share 50 km %3511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %353
Land share of disc %8583
Park area within 2 km43 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxTirana
Score4552
Tourist attractions within 2 km2121
Park area within 2 km43 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxTirana
Score4553
Notable places within 2 km5183
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
BordeauxTirana
Score6284
Price level global73.742.6
Daily budget€160€76
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxTirana
Score6867
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm43 mm to 172 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
3 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
TIA · 13 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

MeasureBordeauxTirana
Official languageFrenchAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m110 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxTirana
City population267,991389,323
People per km²5,4259,314
Museums within 10 km1811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8146
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.