VacationSelector

Biarritz or Budapest?

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.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

BiarritzBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzBudapest
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km436
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 45 points.45
BiarritzBudapest
Score3277
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2071,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzBudapest
Score3164
Museums within 10 km16144
Museums within 2 km of centre564
Share of museums within 2 km %3144
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 57 points.57
BiarritzBudapest
Score1572
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre821,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7866
Nightclubs within 4 km697
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzBudapest
Score3040
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 50 points.50
BiarritzBudapest
Score2171
Tourist attractions within 2 km275
Park area within 2 km32 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 46 points.46
BiarritzBudapest
Score2369
Notable places within 2 km15206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzBudapest
Score6280
Price level global73.748
Daily budget€160€104
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzBudapest
Score6564
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
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). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzBudapest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 20 m
€166-184
BUD · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBiarritzBudapest
Official languageFrenchHungarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m117 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzBudapest
City population26,2061,685,209
People per km²2,2403,209
Museums within 10 km881
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2486
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.