VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Venice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BordeauxVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
BordeauxVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance18 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxVenice
Score6845
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 17 points.17
BordeauxVenice
Score5572
Museums within 10 km3557
Museums within 2 km of centre1745
Share of museums within 2 km %4979
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 13 points.13
BordeauxVenice
Score4835
Drinking venues within 4 km546342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7889
Nightclubs within 4 km323
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 34 points.34
BordeauxVenice
Score5117
Protected land share 50 km %354
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8570
Park area within 2 km43 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxVenice
Score4557
Tourist attractions within 2 km2172
Park area within 2 km43 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 38 points.38
BordeauxVenice
Score4583
Notable places within 2 km51464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxVenice
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxVenice
Score6866
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€107
VCE · 7 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
NiceNCE
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€130-167
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureBordeauxVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxVenice
City population267,991250,369
People per km²5,425602
Museums within 10 km1852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8146
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.