VacationSelector

Biarritz or Las Vegas?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

BiarritzLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance1 km372 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score3262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1324
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score3119
Museums within 10 km1624
Museums within 2 km of centre54
Share of museums within 2 km %3117
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 43 points.43
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score1558
Drinking venues within 4 km105793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7861
Nightclubs within 4 km690
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score3063
Protected land share 50 km %650
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score2134
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km32 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score2351
Notable places within 2 km1575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzLas Vegas
Score6572
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Las Vegas
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
Las Vegas
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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzLas Vegas
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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

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 centre24 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2449
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.