VacationSelector

Biarritz or Bologna?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BiarritzBologna
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzBologna
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km432
Coast distance1 km74 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 26 points.26
BiarritzBologna
Score3258
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207822
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1320
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 36 points.36
BiarritzBologna
Score3167
Museums within 10 km1658
Museums within 2 km of centre543
Share of museums within 2 km %3174
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzBologna
Score1553
Drinking venues within 4 km105720
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82531
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km630
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzBologna
Score3039
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 34 points.34
BiarritzBologna
Score2155
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km32 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 37 points.37
BiarritzBologna
Score2360
Notable places within 2 km15120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzBologna
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzBologna
Score6567
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C7 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3

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). Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzBologna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
CasablancaCMN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 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

MeasureBiarritzBologna
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m54 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzBologna
City population26,206387,971
People per km²2,2402,754
Museums within 10 km866
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2462
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. 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. 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.