VacationSelector

Biarritz or Faro?

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 museums & heritage and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

BiarritzFaro
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzFaro
Score6761
Swim season months23
Beaches 10 km4313
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Faro leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzFaro
Score3244
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzFaro
Score3122
Museums within 10 km169
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %3189
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Faro leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzFaro
Score1521
Drinking venues within 4 km105143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7886
Nightclubs within 4 km68
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzFaro
Score3057
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6442
Park area within 2 km32 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzFaro
Score2136
Tourist attractions within 2 km210
Park area within 2 km32 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzFaro
Score2322
Notable places within 2 km1514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzFaro
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzFaro
Score6583
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

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). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBiarritzFaro
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzFaro
City population26,20664,560
People per km²2,240319
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2434
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 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.