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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Amman or Biarritz?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Biarritz’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Biarritz 68: Biarritz leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Amman and Biarritz are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Biarritz 33: Amman leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Biarritz 36: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Biarritz 74: Biarritz leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Amman and Biarritz are level on 80.
Good for families. Amman 38, Biarritz 62: Biarritz leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Biarritz 58: Biarritz leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Amman and Biarritz are level on 42.
Affordability. Amman 58, Biarritz 30: Amman leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Biarritz 38: Biarritz leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Biarritz 64: Biarritz leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Biarritz.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanBiarritz
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation776 m0 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanBiarritz
City population4,007,52626,206
People per km²2,3852,240
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.