VacationSelector

Belfast or Biarritz?

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

Your match

Belfast
✓ Best match
48
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.

BelfastBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BelfastBiarritz
Score4867
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1043
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 24 points.24
BelfastBiarritz
Score5632
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3113
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BelfastBiarritz
Score2931
Museums within 10 km1816
Museums within 2 km of centre65
Share of museums within 2 km %3331
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 33 points.33
BelfastBiarritz
Score4815
Drinking venues within 4 km550105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre34882
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6378
Nightclubs within 4 km296
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 23 points.23
BelfastBiarritz
Score5330
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6564
Park area within 2 km68 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Belfast leads by 27 points.27
BelfastBiarritz
Score4821
Tourist attractions within 2 km162
Park area within 2 km68 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Belfast leads by 19 points.19
BelfastBiarritz
Score4223
Notable places within 2 km4315
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BelfastBiarritz
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 14 points.14
BelfastBiarritz
Score5165
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBiarritz
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 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

MeasureBelfastBiarritz
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
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBiarritz
City population345,00626,206
People per km²3,0002,240
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4424
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.