VacationSelector

Biarritz or Heidelberg?

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.

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

BiarritzHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km436
Coast distance1 km406 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score3247
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1326
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score3159
Museums within 10 km1654
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %3143
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Heidelberg leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score1527
Drinking venues within 4 km105201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km68
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 44 points.44
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score3074
Protected land share 50 km %652
Landscape blanket share 50 km %022
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score2143
Tourist attractions within 2 km229
Park area within 2 km32 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score2336
Notable places within 2 km1531
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzHeidelberg
Score6561
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
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). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzHeidelberg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
HHN · 120 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

MeasureBiarritzHeidelberg
Official languageFrenchGerman
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 m114 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzHeidelberg
City population26,206162,960
People per km²2,2401,496
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre2445
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.