Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.
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A year here
7 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.
- Jan1063
- Feb1162
- Mar1595
- Apr18127
- May211610
- Jun252014
- Jul272216
- Aug282116
- Sept251913
- Oct201510
- Nov14106
- Dec1063
Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.
How near the sea is
7.3 km
Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.
It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.
Air through the year
Bordeaux, 2025: PM2.5 averaged over 3 reference monitor(s) within 25 km. The World Health Organization’s guideline is 5 µg/m³ and its first interim target is 35.
- Jan9
- Feb5
- Mar6
- Apr5
- May7
- Jun6
- Jul7
- Aug7
- Sept6
- Oct12
- Nov13
- Dec—
A hatched month with a dash is one no monitor measured. It is an absence, not clean air, and it is left out of the annual mean.
How this city rates
- Safety
- 96 / 100measured
- Healthcare
- 92 / 100measured
- Air quality
- 92 / 100measured
A month here, for a reference household
Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.
Residence fees and health cover are those of EU/EEA free movement (no registration required). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.
illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.
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| Line | P25The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on. | P50The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have. | P75The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong. | Basis |
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| Rent, 1-bedroom* | not published | €686 | not published | Published figurePublished by Ministère de la Transition écologique (estimations ANIL) More about this figureBordeaux, observed 2 October 2026Measured in 2025.Covers homes advertised to let, which is what a newcomer is asked before anyone signs.18.54 EUR per m² × 37 m², both published by Ministère de la Transition écologique (DGALN)Advertised rents — what a newcomer is asked today. |
| Electricity, gas and fuel* | not published | €119 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2017.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average ordinary household in Insee's Sud-Ouest survey zone (Aquitaine, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées) in 2017, per household per month, Enquête Budget de famille 2017 — averaged over every household in the zone, including those that spend nothing on the item, in euros of 2017. The zone stands in for the city; Insee states no household size by zone.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Water, sewerage and waste* | €42 | €42 | €42 | Published figurePublished by Office français de la biodiversité (SISPEA) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2025.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: The all-in price per m³ — subscription, consumption, taxes and water-agency levies, TTC — of the public drinking-water and sanitation services covering the commune, in force on 1 January 2025, for the observatory's own reference household: «une consommation de référence d'un volume de 120 m3 définie par l'INSEE ; Ce volume d'eau est représentatif du foyer « moyen » en France». That reference is the publisher's, not a household size of ours. Water and sanitation only: household refuse in France is paid through the TEOM, a property-tax supplement, and is not in this figure.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).4.16 EUR per m³ × 120 m³ a year, both published by Office français de la biodiversité (SISPEA) |
| Internet and phone* | not published | €51 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2017.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average ordinary household in Insee's Sud-Ouest survey zone (Aquitaine, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées) in 2017, per household per month, Enquête Budget de famille 2017 — averaged over every household in the zone, including those that spend nothing on the item, in euros of 2017. The zone stands in for the city; Insee states no household size by zone.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).Shown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Groceries* | not published | €352 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee) More about this figureAdults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2017.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, per month, averaged over every household in metropolitan France as a whole, because this city's ZEAT straddles today's regions: Budget de famille 2017's food bill per household divided by the 2022 census's average household size for the same area. Budget de famille counts the ménage with «un budget en commun»; the census «l'ensemble des occupants d'un même logement». The divisor counts everyone in one dwelling, and a dwelling can hold more than one household that shares a budget, so the divisor is somewhat larger than the survey's own household and this per-person figure reads a little low. A child is charged the same as an adult.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12).This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.4,429 EUR a year per household (2017) ÷ 2.10 people per household (2022), both published by Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee); the household size is the publisher’s household statistic, which counts everyone living in one dwelling, not the survey’s ownShown here and kept out of the ranking: the period it measures ended more than three years ago. |
| Transport* | €110 | €110 | €110 | Published figurePublished by Bordeaux Métropole More about this figureAdults: 2Measured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Pass Mensuel of the TBM network, one month, one named person, unlimited travel; the all-ages monthly pass (young, senior and child passes are separate). Bordeaux Métropole deliberation 2025-132, Annexe 1: «Pass Mensuel 52,80 € 55,00 € +4,2% 1er septembre 2025».This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Health cover | €160 | €228 | €296 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePer member, by age band |
| Schooling (state schooling) | €0 | €0 | €0 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureChildren: 0 |
| Building or service charge | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Statutory levies and licences | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Residence permit renewals | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Domestic help | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Household and leisure baseline | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePeople: 2 |
| Total | not published | €1,588 | not published | This total does not include Building or service charge, Statutory levies and licences, Residence permit renewals, Domestic help and Household and leisure baseline, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Rent, 1-bedroom, Electricity, gas and fuel, Internet and phone and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price. |
– = not published by the source
Routes we hold for France
- EU/EEA free movement (no registration required) — Checked against the law
- Temporary residence card, "visiteur" — Draft — not checked by us yet
Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for France
Provenance
Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.
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