VacationSelector

Biarritz or Palermo?

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

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BiarritzPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz and Palermo are level on 67.
BiarritzPalermo
Score6767
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km4313
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzPalermo
Score3250
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1313
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzPalermo
Score3150
Museums within 10 km1632
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %3181
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzPalermo
Score1553
Drinking venues within 4 km105799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km616
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzPalermo
Score3036
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6445
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzPalermo
Score2141
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 34 points.34
BiarritzPalermo
Score2357
Notable places within 2 km15104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzPalermo
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzPalermo
Score6577
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

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). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 111 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€92-140
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBiarritzPalermo
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzPalermo
City population26,206630,167
People per km²2,2403,924
Museums within 10 km842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2433
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.