VacationSelector

Biarritz or Dresden?

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.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BiarritzDresden
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzDresden
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4322
Coast distance1 km267 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzDresden
Score3261
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1342
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzDresden
Score3154
Museums within 10 km1666
Museums within 2 km of centre534
Share of museums within 2 km %3152
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzDresden
Score1542
Drinking venues within 4 km105359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km643
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzDresden
Score3039
Protected land share 50 km %614
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzDresden
Score2159
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km32 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzDresden
Score2353
Notable places within 2 km1582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzDresden
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 3 points.3
BiarritzDresden
Score6562
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dresden
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
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). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 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

MeasureBiarritzDresden
Official languageFrenchGerman
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 m126 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzDresden
City population26,206564,904
People per km²2,2401,720
Museums within 10 km870
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2477
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. 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.