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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Los Angeles?

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
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Biarritz leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Los Angeles 60: Biarritz leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Los Angeles 25: Biarritz leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Los Angeles 24: Biarritz leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Los Angeles 60: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Biarritz
54match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °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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BiarritzLos Angeles

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzLos Angeles
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 m106 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzLos Angeles
City population26,2063,898,747
People per km²2,2402,994
Museums within 10 km839
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.