VacationSelector

Biarritz or Calgary?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BiarritzCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzCalgary
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance1 km649 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 34 points.34
BiarritzCalgary
Score3266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207749
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1336
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzCalgary
Score319
Museums within 10 km168
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %3138
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzCalgary
Score1544
Drinking venues within 4 km105465
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km619
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzCalgary
Score3036
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares142 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzCalgary
Score2141
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km32 hectares142 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzCalgary
Score2339
Notable places within 2 km1537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzCalgary
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzCalgary
Score6557
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm9 mm to 106 mm
Dry months08
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Calgary
No sunshine record

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). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzCalgary
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 111 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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

MeasureBiarritzCalgary
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m1,045 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzCalgary
City population26,2061,306,784
People per km²2,2401,583
Museums within 10 km813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2467
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.