VacationSelector

Biarritz or Hong Kong?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BiarritzHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzHong Kong
Score6787
Swim season months28
Beaches 10 km4365
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 56 points.56
BiarritzHong Kong
Score3288
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2074,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1332
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzHong Kong
Score3136
Museums within 10 km1650
Museums within 2 km of centre517
Share of museums within 2 km %3134
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 56 points.56
BiarritzHong Kong
Score1571
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre821,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7859
Nightclubs within 4 km637
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 34 points.34
BiarritzHong Kong
Score3064
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6429
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 37 points.37
BiarritzHong Kong
Score2158
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 46 points.46
BiarritzHong Kong
Score2369
Notable places within 2 km15204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzHong Kong
Score6263
Price level global73.772
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzHong Kong
Score6574
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months04
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzHong Kong
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 111 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureBiarritzHong Kong
Official languageFrenchStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzHong Kong
City population26,2067,413,070
People per km²2,240
Museums within 10 km839
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2476
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months8 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.