VacationSelector

Biarritz or Orlando?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

BiarritzOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzOrlando
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km431
Coast distance1 km68 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzOrlando
Score3248
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1321
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzOrlando
Score318
Museums within 10 km1611
Museums within 2 km of centre52
Share of museums within 2 km %3118
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 26 points.26
BiarritzOrlando
Score1541
Drinking venues within 4 km105344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km639
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzOrlando
Score3044
Protected land share 50 km %615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 68 points.68
BiarritzOrlando
Score2189
Tourist attractions within 2 km2
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzOrlando
Score2316
Notable places within 2 km1510
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzOrlando
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzOrlando
Score6574
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Orlando
No sunshine record

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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzOrlando
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 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

MeasureBiarritzOrlando
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m34 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzOrlando
City population26,206334,854
People per km²2,2401,086
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2430
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.