VacationSelector

Biarritz or Inverness?

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

Your match

Biarritz
✓ Best match
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BiarritzInverness
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 39 points.39
BiarritzInverness
Score6728
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km431
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzInverness
Score3221
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1311
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzInverness
Score3120
Museums within 10 km166
Museums within 2 km of centre55
Share of museums within 2 km %3183
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Biarritz and Inverness are level on 15.
BiarritzInverness
Score1515
Drinking venues within 4 km105113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8298
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7887
Nightclubs within 4 km64
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzInverness
Score309
Protected land share 50 km %612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %6488
Park area within 2 km32 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Biarritz leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzInverness
Score210
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km32 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzInverness
Score2324
Notable places within 2 km1516
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzInverness
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzInverness
Score6552
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months01
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzInverness
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
3 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 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

MeasureBiarritzInverness
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 m7 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzInverness
City population26,20647,380
People per km²2,2402,289
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2415
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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.