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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
The towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Panama City?

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

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Panama City for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Panama City’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, Panama City 44: Biarritz leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Panama City 57: Biarritz leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz and Panama City are level on 74.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Panama City 50: Biarritz leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Panama City 45: Biarritz leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Panama City 40: Biarritz leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Panama City 52: Panama City leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Panama City 55: Panama City leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Panama City 34: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Panama City 22: Biarritz leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Panama City.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Panama City
50match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Panama City 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). Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzPanama City
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Balboa (PAB)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzPanama City
City population26,2061,540,000
People per km²2,2405,600
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.