VacationSelector

Atlanta or Biarritz?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

AtlantaBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
AtlantaBiarritz
Score067
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km043
Coast distance373 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 27 points.27
AtlantaBiarritz
Score5932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2313
Museums & heritage. Atlanta leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaBiarritz
Score3531
Museums within 10 km4116
Museums within 2 km of centre165
Share of museums within 2 km %3931
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 34 points.34
AtlantaBiarritz
Score4915
Drinking venues within 4 km531105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre28482
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km466
Nature & day trips. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaBiarritz
Score3130
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km113 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Atlanta leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaBiarritz
Score3221
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km113 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaBiarritz
Score4023
Notable places within 2 km3915
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaBiarritz
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaBiarritz
Score6765
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBiarritz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaBiarritz
Official languageFrench
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 centre24 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre5624
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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.