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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Antwerp 15, Biarritz 68: Biarritz leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp and Biarritz are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Biarritz 33: Antwerp leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Biarritz 36: Antwerp leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Biarritz 74: Biarritz leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Biarritz 80: Antwerp leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Antwerp and Biarritz are level on 62.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Biarritz 58: Antwerp leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Biarritz 42: Antwerp leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Biarritz 30: Antwerp leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Biarritz 38: Antwerp leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Biarritz 64: Biarritz leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Biarritz.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antwerp
55match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Biarritz
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.

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpBiarritz
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBiarritz
City population529,24726,206
People per km²2,5422,240
Museums within 10 km388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
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). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.