VacationSelector

Biarritz or Krakow?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and 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.

BiarritzKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzKrakow
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km439
Coast distance1 km456 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
BiarritzKrakow
Score3268
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2071,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1330
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 44 points.44
BiarritzKrakow
Score3175
Museums within 10 km1684
Museums within 2 km of centre569
Share of museums within 2 km %3182
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 42 points.42
BiarritzKrakow
Score1557
Drinking venues within 4 km105836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km654
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzKrakow
Score3046
Protected land share 50 km %614
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 53 points.53
BiarritzKrakow
Score2174
Tourist attractions within 2 km277
Park area within 2 km32 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 45 points.45
BiarritzKrakow
Score2368
Notable places within 2 km15198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 17 points.17
BiarritzKrakow
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzKrakow
Score6558
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months04
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Krakow
No sunshine record

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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzKrakow
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 111 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureBiarritzKrakow
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m219 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzKrakow
City population26,206804,237
People per km²2,2402,459
Museums within 10 km8114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre2468
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.