VacationSelector

Bordeaux or York?

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

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BordeauxYork
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and York are level on 0.
BordeauxYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance18 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxYork
Score6854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxYork
Score5546
Museums within 10 km3518
Museums within 2 km of centre1716
Share of museums within 2 km %4989
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxYork
Score4843
Drinking venues within 4 km546450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km3214
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxYork
Score5133
Protected land share 50 km %3517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3516
Land share of disc %8595
Park area within 2 km43 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 2 points.2
BordeauxYork
Score4543
Tourist attractions within 2 km2113
Park area within 2 km43 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxYork
Score4539
Notable places within 2 km5137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 8 points.8
BordeauxYork
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxYork
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 50 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureBordeauxYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation1 m25 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxYork
City population267,991208,400
People per km²5,425766
Museums within 10 km1824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8154

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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. 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.