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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Atlanta 10, Biarritz 68: Biarritz leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Biarritz 62: Atlanta leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Biarritz 33: Atlanta leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Biarritz 36: Atlanta leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Biarritz 74: Biarritz leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Biarritz 80: Biarritz leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Biarritz 62: Atlanta leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Biarritz 58: Biarritz leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Biarritz 42: Atlanta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Biarritz 30: Atlanta leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Biarritz 38: Atlanta leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Biarritz 64: Biarritz leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Biarritz.

Your match

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

Atlanta
49match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Atlanta 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaBiarritz
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m0 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBiarritz
City population498,71526,206
People per km²1,4332,240
Museums within 10 km278
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.