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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bordeaux or West Palm Beach?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, West Palm Beach 52: Bordeaux leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, West Palm Beach 42: Bordeaux leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, West Palm Beach 36: Bordeaux leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux and West Palm Beach are level on 58.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, West Palm Beach 55: Bordeaux leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, West Palm Beach 38: Bordeaux leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, West Palm Beach 23: Bordeaux leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, West Palm Beach 47: Bordeaux leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and West Palm Beach.

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.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and families 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BordeauxWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxWest Palm Beach
City population267,991117,415
People per km²5,425786
Museums within 10 km184
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.