VacationSelector

Biarritz or Copenhagen?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
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.

BiarritzCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score6754
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4317
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 41 points.41
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score3273
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2071,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1337
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 44 points.44
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score3175
Museums within 10 km1683
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %3161
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 52 points.52
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score1567
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7858
Nightclubs within 4 km664
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score3050
Protected land share 50 km %65
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6439
Park area within 2 km32 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 50 points.50
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score2171
Tourist attractions within 2 km254
Park area within 2 km32 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 51 points.51
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score2374
Notable places within 2 km15273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score6252
Price level global73.787.8
Daily budget€160€214
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzCopenhagen
Score6555
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months03
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Copenhagen
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). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzCopenhagen
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€214-241
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 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

MeasureBiarritzCopenhagen
Official languageFrenchDanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzCopenhagen
City population26,206667,099
People per km²2,2407,339
Museums within 10 km872
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2482
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.