VacationSelector

Biarritz or Kyoto?

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.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BiarritzKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 50 points.50
BiarritzKyoto
Score6717
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 52 points.52
BiarritzKyoto
Score3284
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2075,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 41 points.41
BiarritzKyoto
Score3172
Museums within 10 km16132
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %3139
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 65 points.65
BiarritzKyoto
Score1580
Drinking venues within 4 km1053,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre822,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7873
Nightclubs within 4 km626
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzKyoto
Score3022
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
BiarritzKyoto
Score2166
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km32 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzKyoto
Score2352
Notable places within 2 km1579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzKyoto
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 3 points.3
BiarritzKyoto
Score6562
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months00
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

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). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzKyoto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
2 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 111 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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

MeasureBiarritzKyoto
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m51 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzKyoto
City population26,2061,463,723
People per km²2,2401,768
Museums within 10 km876
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre2489
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. 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.