Bordeaux · May
Where to go from Bordeaux in May
107 places you can reach by train, coach or ferry within eight hours, leaving on a weekday morning, and what May is like in each: the warmth and the rain on average, the daylight, and what's on.
Good for May
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Lyon 5h 58 France Highs of 22°, and Nuits sonores.
- Brighton 7h 59 United Kingdom Highs of 16°, and Brighton Festival and 1 more on.
- Toulouse 2h 39 France Highs of 21°.
- Rennes 6h 27 France Rock'n Solex.
- Bruges 6h 31 Belgium Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges.
- Breda 7h 21 Netherlands Breda Jazz Festival.
On in May
- Nuits sonores in Lyon 5h 58
- Rock'n Solex in Rennes 6h 27
- Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges in Bruges 6h 31
- Breda Jazz Festival in Breda 7h 21
- Festival of Literature in Swindon 7h 39
- Gipsyfestival in Tilburg 7h 42
- Cambridge Beer Festival in Cambridge 7h 45
- Rowing in Cambridge 7h 45
- Kattenstoet in Ypres 7h 49
- Brighton Festival in Brighton 7h 59
- The Great Escape in Brighton 7h 59
Most happen every year in May; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Bordeaux, May has 14 h 49 of daylight and averages 11–22°.
- Toulouse · France 2h 39 12–21° 75 mm 14 h 42
- Paris · France 3h 05 11–20° 69 mm 15 h 15
- Bayonne · France 3h 07 — 14 h 41
- Biarritz · France 3h 19 — 14 h 41
- Saint-Cloud · France 3h 30 · 2 ch — 15 h 15
- La Rochelle · France 3h 36 — 14 h 57
- Versailles · France 3h 47 · 1 ch — 15 h 15
- Disneyland Paris · France 4h 04 · 2 ch — 15 h 16
- Béziers · France 4h 22 · 1 ch — 14 h 40
- Fontainebleau · France 4h 28 · 2 ch — 15 h 12
- San Sebastián · Spain 4h 35 · 1 ch — 14 h 40
- Perpignan · France 4h 50 · 1 ch 13–22° 46 mm 14 h 37
- Montpellier · France 4h 55 — 14 h 42
- Rouen · France 4h 56 · 2 ch — 15 h 20
- Brussels · Belgium 5h 19 · 2 ch 9–18° 60 mm 15 h 30
- Le Mans · France 5h 19 · 2 ch — 15 h 10
- Reims · France 5h 19 · 1 ch — 15 h 18
- Nantes · France 5h 21 · 1 ch 10–20° 61 mm 15 h 04
- Lourdes · France 5h 23 · 1 ch — 14 h 39
- Chartres · France 5h 29 · 1 ch — 15 h 13
- Figueres · Spain 5h 32 · 1 ch — 14 h 34
- Le Havre · France 5h 42 · 2 ch — 15 h 20
- Kraainem · Belgium 5h 44 · 4 ch 8–18° 70 mm 15 h 31
- Girona · Spain 5h 49 · 1 ch 10–23° 65 mm 14 h 33
- Lille · France 5h 50 · 2 ch 9–18° 62 mm 15 h 29
- Aalst · Belgium 5h 52 · 3 ch — 15 h 31
- Arles · France 5h 52 — 14 h 42
- Lyon · France 5h 58 · 2 ch 11–22° 81 mm 14 h 55 Nuits sonores
- Dijon · France 5h 59 · 2 ch — 15 h 05
- Leuven · Belgium 6h · 3 ch — 15 h 31
- Ghent · Belgium 6h 02 · 3 ch — 15 h 32
- Caen · France 6h 04 · 2 ch — 15 h 18
- Mechelen · Belgium 6h 07 · 3 ch — 15 h 32
- Liège · Belgium 6h 11 · 2 ch — 15 h 29
- Amiens · France 6h 12 · 3 ch — 15 h 23
- Antwerp · Belgium 6h 25 · 3 ch 9–19° 60 mm 15 h 33
- Lier · Belgium 6h 25 · 3 ch — 15 h 33
- Avignon · France 6h 25 · 1 ch — 14 h 44
- Rennes · France 6h 27 · 1 ch — 15 h 10 Rock'n Solex
- Ath · Belgium 6h 30 · 4 ch — 15 h 29
Journeys from Bordeaux's stations on a Tuesday from 08:00, waiting for the train included, from published timetables as of 19 October 2026. Temperatures and rain are long-term averages from each city's Wikivoyage article (CC BY-SA); daylight is worked out for the middle of the month.
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