VacationSelector

Biarritz or Edinburgh?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BiarritzEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score6755
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4320
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score3270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2071,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 26 points.26
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score3157
Museums within 10 km1630
Museums within 2 km of centre522
Share of museums within 2 km %3173
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 49 points.49
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score1564
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7874
Nightclubs within 4 km665
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score3035
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6485
Park area within 2 km32 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 51 points.51
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score2172
Tourist attractions within 2 km287
Park area within 2 km32 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 37 points.37
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score2360
Notable places within 2 km15126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzEdinburgh
Score6551
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm43 mm to 80 mm
Dry months00
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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzEdinburgh
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
€106
EDI · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureBiarritzEdinburgh
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m47 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzEdinburgh
City population26,206488,050
People per km²2,2401,884
Museums within 10 km832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2478
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.