VacationSelector

Biarritz or Lima?

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.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

BiarritzLima
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzLima
Score6737
Swim season months22
Beaches 10 km4312
Coast distance1 km6 km
Water distance1 km6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzLima
Score3252
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1314
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzLima
Score3164
Museums within 10 km1689
Museums within 2 km of centre547
Share of museums within 2 km %3153
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lima leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzLima
Score1545
Drinking venues within 4 km105409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km663
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 3 points.3
BiarritzLima
Score3027
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6451
Park area within 2 km32 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 35 points.35
BiarritzLima
Score2156
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km32 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzLima
Score2346
Notable places within 2 km1554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzLima
Score6280
Price level global73.747.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzLima
Score6592
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 1 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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzLima
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 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

MeasureBiarritzLima
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation0 m154 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzLima
City population26,2069,943,800
People per km²2,2403,721
Museums within 10 km846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2433
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months2 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.