VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Zurich?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

BordeauxZurich
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Zurich are level on 0.
BordeauxZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km423
Coast distance18 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxZurich
Score6867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3230
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 1 points.1
BordeauxZurich
Score5556
Museums within 10 km3576
Museums within 2 km of centre1737
Share of museums within 2 km %4949
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxZurich
Score4854
Drinking venues within 4 km546676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7882
Nightclubs within 4 km3274
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxZurich
Score5137
Protected land share 50 km %3516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %359
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 9 points.9
BordeauxZurich
Score4536
Tourist attractions within 2 km218
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxZurich
Score4559
Notable places within 2 km51119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bordeaux leads by 27 points.27
BordeauxZurich
Score6235
Price level global73.7110.5
Daily budget€160€248
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxZurich
Score6853
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
SXB · 146 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SXB · 146 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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

MeasureBordeauxZurich
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m408 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxZurich
City population267,991452,421
People per km²5,4255,147
Museums within 10 km1863
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8178

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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.