VacationSelector

Biarritz or Granada?

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 with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
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.

BiarritzGranada
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzGranada
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance1 km48 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 35 points.35
BiarritzGranada
Score3267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1334
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 17 points.17
BiarritzGranada
Score3148
Museums within 10 km1628
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %3193
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Granada leads by 37 points.37
BiarritzGranada
Score1552
Drinking venues within 4 km105637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km646
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzGranada
Score3063
Protected land share 50 km %627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6496
Park area within 2 km32 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 35 points.35
BiarritzGranada
Score2156
Tourist attractions within 2 km260
Park area within 2 km32 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzGranada
Score2344
Notable places within 2 km1550
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzGranada
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzGranada
Score6574
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months07
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Granada
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Granada
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
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureBiarritzGranada
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m693 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzGranada
City population26,206233,975
People per km²2,2402,659
Museums within 10 km819
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2462
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. 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.