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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Biarritz or Laguna Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Laguna Beach 40: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Laguna Beach 27: Biarritz leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Laguna Beach 18: Biarritz leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Laguna Beach 73: Biarritz leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Laguna Beach 72: Biarritz leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Laguna Beach 33: Biarritz leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Laguna Beach 46: Laguna Beach leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Laguna Beach 12: Biarritz leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Laguna Beach 47: Biarritz leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Laguna Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on families 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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BiarritzLaguna Beach

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). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzLaguna Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzLaguna Beach
City population26,20623,032
People per km²2,240907
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.