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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Biarritz or Florence?

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
  • families

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

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Biarritz leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Florence 74: Florence leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Florence 94: Florence leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Florence 42: Florence leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Florence 58: Biarritz leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Florence 98: Florence leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Florence 45: Biarritz leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Florence 78: Florence leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Florence 72: Florence leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Florence 35: Florence leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Florence 58: Florence leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Florence 42: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Florence.

Your match

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

Biarritz
54match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzFlorence
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzFlorence
City population26,206360,930
People per km²2,2403,528
Museums within 10 km8141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months-

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.