VacationSelector

Biarritz or Kotor?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

BiarritzKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzKotor
Score6777
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km4350
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Biarritz leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzKotor
Score3226
Restaurants within 2 km of centre20771
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1319
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 3 points.3
BiarritzKotor
Score3128
Museums within 10 km167
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %3143
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzKotor
Score154
Drinking venues within 4 km10546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8238
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km63
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzKotor
Score3015
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %6466
Park area within 2 km32 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Biarritz leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzKotor
Score219
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km32 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzKotor
Score2321
Notable places within 2 km1513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 25 points.25
BiarritzKotor
Score6287
Price level global73.738.9
Daily budget€160€95
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzKotor
Score6561
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm38 mm to 256 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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzKotor
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 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

MeasureBiarritzKotor
Official languageFrenchMontenegrin
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 m10 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzKotor
City population26,206562
People per km²2,240
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre2427
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.