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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Biarritz or Cork?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Biarritz’s own page.

Choose Cork for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Biarritz 68, Cork 25: Biarritz leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Cork 58: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Cork 40: Cork leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Cork 40: Cork leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Cork 62: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Cork 68: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Cork 50: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Biarritz and Cork are level on 58.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Cork 40: Biarritz leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Cork 33: Cork leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Cork 45: Cork leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Cork 22: Biarritz leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Cork.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cork
45match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzCork
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzCork
City population26,206222,333
People per km²2,2405,961
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.