VacationSelector

Biarritz or Izmir?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

BiarritzIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzIzmir
Score6755
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
BiarritzIzmir
Score3249
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1312
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzIzmir
Score3143
Museums within 10 km1647
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %3157
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 47 points.47
BiarritzIzmir
Score1562
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km670
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzIzmir
Score3029
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6484
Park area within 2 km32 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzIzmir
Score2135
Tourist attractions within 2 km26
Park area within 2 km32 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
BiarritzIzmir
Score2340
Notable places within 2 km1539
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzIzmir
Score6289
Price level global73.735.2
Daily budget€160€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzIzmir
Score6572
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LyonLYS
1 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBiarritzIzmir
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzIzmir
City population26,2064,493,242
People per km²2,2404,760
Museums within 10 km829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2420
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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.