VacationSelector

Bath 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

Bath
40
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

BathBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 59 points.59
BathBiarritz
Score867
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km143
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 14 points.14
BathBiarritz
Score4632
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2613
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 16 points.16
BathBiarritz
Score4731
Museums within 10 km2016
Museums within 2 km of centre145
Share of museums within 2 km %7031
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bath leads by 21 points.21
BathBiarritz
Score3615
Drinking venues within 4 km320105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre24082
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km116
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 14 points.14
BathBiarritz
Score4430
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9264
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 19 points.19
BathBiarritz
Score4021
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathBiarritz
Score3223
Notable places within 2 km2515
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BathBiarritz
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 10 points.10
BathBiarritz
Score5565
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
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
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBathBiarritz
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
7 h 20 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

MeasureBathBiarritz
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m0 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBiarritz
City population94,09226,206
People per km²3,2452,240
Museums within 10 km178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3824
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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). 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. 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.