VacationSelector

Biarritz or Brussels?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
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.

BiarritzBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzBrussels
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance1 km56 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 49 points.49
BiarritzBrussels
Score3281
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2071,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1344
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 49 points.49
BiarritzBrussels
Score3180
Museums within 10 km16120
Museums within 2 km of centre559
Share of museums within 2 km %3149
Unesco sites within 50 km210
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 53 points.53
BiarritzBrussels
Score1568
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7861
Nightclubs within 4 km684
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzBrussels
Score3031
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 35 points.35
BiarritzBrussels
Score2156
Tourist attractions within 2 km228
Park area within 2 km32 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 50 points.50
BiarritzBrussels
Score2373
Notable places within 2 km15254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzBrussels
Score6260
Price level global73.776.2
Daily budget€160€180
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzBrussels
Score6557
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm47 mm to 90 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
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1

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). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzBrussels
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
2 h 25 m
€114-153
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBiarritzBrussels
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m70 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzBrussels
City population26,206195,546
People per km²2,2405,908
Museums within 10 km8105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km210
Distinct cuisines in the centre24109
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.