VacationSelector

Antwerp or Biarritz?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

AntwerpBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
AntwerpBiarritz
Score067
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km143
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 43 points.43
AntwerpBiarritz
Score7532
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4213
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 38 points.38
AntwerpBiarritz
Score6931
Museums within 10 km4116
Museums within 2 km of centre275
Share of museums within 2 km %6631
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 44 points.44
AntwerpBiarritz
Score5915
Drinking venues within 4 km866105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre65782
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7678
Nightclubs within 4 km736
Nature & day trips. Antwerp leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpBiarritz
Score3430
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8064
Park area within 2 km53 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpBiarritz
Score4621
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km53 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 31 points.31
AntwerpBiarritz
Score5423
Notable places within 2 km8815
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpBiarritz
Score6062
Price level global76.273.7
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpBiarritz
Score5865
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm97 mm to 224 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpBiarritz
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 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 2026-08 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

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 centre24 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8024
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.