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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Las Vegas?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Biarritz leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Las Vegas 25: Biarritz leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Las Vegas 68: Biarritz leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Las Vegas 25: Biarritz leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Las Vegas 25: Biarritz leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Las Vegas 38: Biarritz leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Las Vegas 35: Las Vegas leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Las Vegas 40: Biarritz leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BiarritzLas Vegas

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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzLas Vegas
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 m610 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzLas Vegas
City population26,206641,903
People per km²2,2401,843
Museums within 10 km821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.