VacationSelector

Biarritz or Mexico City?

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 with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BiarritzMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzMexico City
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance1 km247 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
BiarritzMexico City
Score3266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2072,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1315
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 48 points.48
BiarritzMexico City
Score3179
Museums within 10 km16138
Museums within 2 km of centre565
Share of museums within 2 km %3147
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 63 points.63
BiarritzMexico City
Score1578
Drinking venues within 4 km1052,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km6198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
BiarritzMexico City
Score3063
Protected land share 50 km %630
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzMexico City
Score2150
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km32 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 31 points.31
BiarritzMexico City
Score2354
Notable places within 2 km1588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzMexico City
Score6276
Price level global73.754.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 25 points.25
BiarritzMexico City
Score6590
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzMexico City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 111 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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

MeasureBiarritzMexico City
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,240 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzMexico City
City population26,2069,209,944
People per km²2,2406,202
Museums within 10 km8108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre2450
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.