VacationSelector

Biarritz or Bodrum?

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

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Bodrum
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BiarritzBodrum
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzBodrum
Score6777
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km4330
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzBodrum
Score3250
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207444
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1320
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzBodrum
Score3120
Museums within 10 km165
Museums within 2 km of centre54
Share of museums within 2 km %3180
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzBodrum
Score1545
Drinking venues within 4 km105418
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82334
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7880
Nightclubs within 4 km660
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzBodrum
Score3019
Protected land share 50 km %65
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6435
Park area within 2 km32 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Bodrum leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzBodrum
Score2122
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km32 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzBodrum
Score2318
Notable places within 2 km1511
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzBodrum
Score6289
Price level global73.735.2
Daily budget€160€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzBodrum
Score6577
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C13.8 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 147 mm
Dry months05
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
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Bodrum
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzBodrum
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
AthensATH
3 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 111 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 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

MeasureBiarritzBodrum
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzBodrum
City population26,206175,000
People per km²2,240314
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2430
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.