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Bordeaux or West Palm Beach?

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.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 31 points.31
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score6837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 38 points.38
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score5517
Museums within 10 km355
Museums within 2 km of centre173
Share of museums within 2 km %4960
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 28 points.28
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score4820
Drinking venues within 4 km546132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre42790
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km3210
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score5169
Protected land share 50 km %3515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8545
Park area within 2 km43 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score4521
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km43 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 33 points.33
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score4512
Notable places within 2 km518
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.7
BordeauxWest Palm Beach
Score6875
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxWest Palm Beach
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
Fort-de-FranceFDF
8 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

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 centre94 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8118
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.