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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Montreal?

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

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montreal for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: Biarritz leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Montreal 66: Biarritz leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Montreal 55: Biarritz leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Montreal 57: Biarritz leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Montreal.

Your match

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

Biarritz
54match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BiarritzMontreal

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). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzMontreal
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzMontreal
City population26,2061,895,211
People per km²2,2403,806
Museums within 10 km837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.