VacationSelector

Bangkok or Biarritz?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
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.

BangkokBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 27 points.27
BangkokBiarritz
Score4067
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km043
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 51 points.51
BangkokBiarritz
Score8332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2613
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokBiarritz
Score4631
Museums within 10 km10316
Museums within 2 km of centre305
Share of museums within 2 km %2931
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 68 points.68
BangkokBiarritz
Score8315
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,39682
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4178
Nightclubs within 4 km726
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 21 points.21
BangkokBiarritz
Score5130
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8364
Park area within 2 km42 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 36 points.36
BangkokBiarritz
Score5721
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km42 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokBiarritz
Score4823
Notable places within 2 km6215
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 31 points.31
BangkokBiarritz
Score9362
Price level global29.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 9 points.9
BangkokBiarritz
Score5665
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm97 mm to 224 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBiarritz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 111 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 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

MeasureBangkokBiarritz
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m0 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBiarritz
City population5,676,64826,206
People per km²3,6192,240
Museums within 10 km598
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9124
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.