VacationSelector

Athens or Biarritz?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AthensBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
AthensBiarritz
Score4867
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km1443
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 37 points.37
AthensBiarritz
Score6932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2513
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 42 points.42
AthensBiarritz
Score7331
Museums within 10 km12216
Museums within 2 km of centre785
Share of museums within 2 km %6431
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 66 points.66
AthensBiarritz
Score8115
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,35482
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5078
Nightclubs within 4 km1366
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AthensBiarritz
Score4530
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5064
Park area within 2 km128 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 50 points.50
AthensBiarritz
Score7121
Tourist attractions within 2 km682
Park area within 2 km128 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 52 points.52
AthensBiarritz
Score7523
Notable places within 2 km29115
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 12 points.12
AthensBiarritz
Score7462
Price level global55.873.7
Daily budget€125€160
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensBiarritz
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm97 mm to 224 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensBiarritz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAthensBiarritz
Official languageGreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m0 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensBiarritz
City population643,45226,206
People per km²16,4992,240
Museums within 10 km888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre8224
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.