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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Huatulco?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Biarritz for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Biarritz’s own page.

Choose Huatulco for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Huatulco’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Biarritz 68, Huatulco 86: Huatulco leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Huatulco 44: Biarritz leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Huatulco 15: Biarritz leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Huatulco 24: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Huatulco 76: Huatulco leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Huatulco 40: Biarritz leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Huatulco 56: Biarritz leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Huatulco 33: Biarritz leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Huatulco 20: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Huatulco 62: Huatulco leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Huatulco 9: Biarritz leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Huatulco 52: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Huatulco.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Huatulco
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzHuatulco
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m220 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzHuatulco
City population26,2067,409
People per km²2,240-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.