VacationSelector

Berlin or Biarritz?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

BerlinBiarritz
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BerlinBiarritz
Score067
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km1743
Coast distance142 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinBiarritz
Score7032
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117207
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3313
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 48 points.48
BerlinBiarritz
Score7931
Museums within 10 km20016
Museums within 2 km of centre815
Share of museums within 2 km %4131
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 61 points.61
BerlinBiarritz
Score7615
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114105
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre71982
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3478
Nightclubs within 4 km1356
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinBiarritz
Score4930
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km141 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 55 points.55
BerlinBiarritz
Score7621
Tourist attractions within 2 km542
Park area within 2 km141 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 61 points.61
BerlinBiarritz
Score8423
Notable places within 2 km48615
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BerlinBiarritz
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 5 points.5
BerlinBiarritz
Score6065
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C13.1 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm97 mm to 224 mm
Dry months30
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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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBiarritz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
5 h 5 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

MeasureBerlinBiarritz
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m0 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBiarritz
City population3,782,20226,206
People per km²4,2442,240
Museums within 10 km1588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8624
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.