VacationSelector

Biarritz or Glasgow?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BiarritzGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 31 points.31
BiarritzGlasgow
Score6736
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km433
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 31 points.31
BiarritzGlasgow
Score3263
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1329
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzGlasgow
Score3145
Museums within 10 km1632
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %3141
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 48 points.48
BiarritzGlasgow
Score1563
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7861
Nightclubs within 4 km673
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzGlasgow
Score3038
Protected land share 50 km %616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %6491
Park area within 2 km32 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzGlasgow
Score2141
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km32 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzGlasgow
Score2353
Notable places within 2 km1580
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzGlasgow
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzGlasgow
Score6543
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Glasgow
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
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

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). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzGlasgow
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
ArrecifeACE
2 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 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

MeasureBiarritzGlasgow
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 m21 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzGlasgow
City population26,206626,410
People per km²2,240190
Museums within 10 km829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2454
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. 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.