VacationSelector

Biarritz or Bucharest?

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.

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

BiarritzBucharest
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzBucharest
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km433
Coast distance1 km198 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 35 points.35
BiarritzBucharest
Score3267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207667
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1341
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzBucharest
Score3149
Museums within 10 km1673
Museums within 2 km of centre540
Share of museums within 2 km %3155
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 47 points.47
BiarritzBucharest
Score1562
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,017
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82541
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7853
Nightclubs within 4 km680
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzBucharest
Score3036
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares133 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 47 points.47
BiarritzBucharest
Score2168
Tourist attractions within 2 km245
Park area within 2 km32 hectares133 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzBucharest
Score2361
Notable places within 2 km15130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzBucharest
Score6285
Price level global73.740.9
Daily budget€160€99
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzBucharest
Score6563
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C2.8 °C to 30.5 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm33 mm to 82 mm
Dry months01
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

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). Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzBucharest
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 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

MeasureBiarritzBucharest
Official languageFrenchRomanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Romanian Leu (RON)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m70 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzBucharest
City population26,2061,716,961
People per km²2,2407,597
Museums within 10 km841
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2468
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. 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.