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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Krabi?

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
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Krabi 50: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Krabi 20: Biarritz leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Krabi 33: Biarritz leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Krabi 40: Biarritz leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Krabi 55: Biarritz leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Krabi 30: Biarritz leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Krabi 20: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Krabi 12: Biarritz leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Krabi.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzKrabi
Official languageFrenchThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation0 m16 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzKrabi
City population26,20630,499
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.