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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bordeaux or Valparaiso?

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

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Bordeaux leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Valparaiso 50: Bordeaux leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Valparaiso 62: Bordeaux leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Valparaiso 63: Bordeaux leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Valparaiso 33: Bordeaux leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Valparaiso 44: Bordeaux leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Valparaiso 30: Bordeaux leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Valparaiso 38: Bordeaux leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Valparaiso 18: Bordeaux leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxValparaiso
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation1 m21 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxValparaiso
City population267,991296,655
People per km²5,4256,180
Museums within 10 km1817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.