VacationSelector

Biarritz or La Spezia?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BiarritzLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score6773
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km4332
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Biarritz leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score3231
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1311
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score3142
Museums within 10 km1615
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %3167
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. La Spezia leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score1524
Drinking venues within 4 km105208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7885
Nightclubs within 4 km61
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score3052
Protected land share 50 km %613
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6451
Park area within 2 km32 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Biarritz leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score2120
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km32 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score237
Notable places within 2 km156
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzLa Spezia
Score6570
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
La Spezia
9
10
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
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
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). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 111 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 65 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€207-240
1 stop
GOA · 86 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 5 m
no fares
LDE · 130 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBiarritzLa Spezia
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzLa Spezia
City population26,20692,119
People per km²2,2401,792
Museums within 10 km812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2422
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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. 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.