VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Zadar?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BordeauxZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
BordeauxZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km449
Coast distance18 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 43 points.43
BordeauxZadar
Score6825
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 22 points.22
BordeauxZadar
Score5533
Museums within 10 km358
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %49100
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 23 points.23
BordeauxZadar
Score4825
Drinking venues within 4 km546194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km324
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxZadar
Score5155
Protected land share 50 km %3512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %8547
Park area within 2 km43 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxZadar
Score4531
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km43 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxZadar
Score4531
Notable places within 2 km5123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 18 points.18
BordeauxZadar
Score6280
Price level global73.748.5
Daily budget€160€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxZadar
Score6869
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm25 mm to 117 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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bordeaux
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Zadar
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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
BaselBSL
1 h 30 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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

MeasureBordeauxZadar
Official languageFrenchCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m5 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxZadar
City population267,99170,779
People per km²5,425
Museums within 10 km181
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8117
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.