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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Marmaris?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Marmaris 40: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Marmaris 18: Biarritz leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Marmaris 72: Biarritz leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Marmaris 65: Biarritz leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Biarritz and Marmaris are level on 62.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Marmaris 55: Biarritz leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Marmaris 38: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Marmaris 12: Biarritz leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Marmaris 50: Biarritz leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzMarmaris
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzMarmaris
City population26,20697,818
People per km²2,240111
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.