VacationSelector

Biarritz or Cadiz?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Cadiz
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

BiarritzCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 3 points.3
BiarritzCadiz
Score6770
Swim season months23
Beaches 10 km4329
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cadiz leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzCadiz
Score3244
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1318
Museums & heritage. Cadiz leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzCadiz
Score3136
Museums within 10 km1623
Museums within 2 km of centre516
Share of museums within 2 km %3170
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Cadiz leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzCadiz
Score1530
Drinking venues within 4 km105241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7873
Nightclubs within 4 km66
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzCadiz
Score3026
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6445
Park area within 2 km32 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzCadiz
Score2154
Tourist attractions within 2 km280
Park area within 2 km32 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Cadiz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzCadiz
Score2331
Notable places within 2 km1523
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzCadiz
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzCadiz
Score6583
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 89 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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5

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). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzCadiz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€85-133
SVQ · 105 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 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

MeasureBiarritzCadiz
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzCadiz
City population26,206109,950
People per km²2,2409,087
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2428
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 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.