VacationSelector

Biarritz or Geneva?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BiarritzGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzGeneva
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4343
Coast distance1 km279 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzGeneva
Score3270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2071,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzGeneva
Score3152
Museums within 10 km1635
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %3157
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 35 points.35
BiarritzGeneva
Score1550
Drinking venues within 4 km105549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km660
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzGeneva
Score3059
Protected land share 50 km %627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %021
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 44 points.44
BiarritzGeneva
Score2165
Tourist attractions within 2 km228
Park area within 2 km32 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzGeneva
Score2356
Notable places within 2 km1599
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzGeneva
Score6235
Price level global73.7110.5
Daily budget€160€248
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzGeneva
Score6559
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
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). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€84-118
BIO · 111 km
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureBiarritzGeneva
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m403 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzGeneva
City population26,206209,061
People per km²2,24013,148
Museums within 10 km835
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2480
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.