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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Palm Springs

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Palm Springs?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Biarritz leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Palm Springs 40: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Palm Springs 42: Palm Springs leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz and Palm Springs are level on 36.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Palm Springs 38: Biarritz leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Palm Springs 40: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Palm Springs 22: Biarritz leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Palm Springs 32: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Palm Springs 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). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzPalm Springs
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m146 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzPalm Springs
City population26,20644,575
People per km²2,240181
Museums within 10 km83
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.