VacationSelector

Biarritz or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 17 points.17
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score6784
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km437
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score3245
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1318
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score3120
Museums within 10 km1614
Museums within 2 km of centre56
Share of museums within 2 km %3143
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score1534
Drinking venues within 4 km105259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km618
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 51 points.51
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score3081
Protected land share 50 km %620
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6451
Park area within 2 km32 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score2119
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km32 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score230
Notable places within 2 km152
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzFort Lauderdale
Score6576
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzFort Lauderdale
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureBiarritzFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzFort Lauderdale
City population26,206182,760
People per km²2,2401,829
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2425
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. 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.