VacationSelector

Biarritz or Paphos?

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

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

BiarritzPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzPaphos
Score6779
Swim season months26
Beaches 10 km4327
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzPaphos
Score3244
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzPaphos
Score3122
Museums within 10 km168
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %3138
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzPaphos
Score1530
Drinking venues within 4 km105224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km611
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzPaphos
Score3023
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6433
Park area within 2 km32 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzPaphos
Score2142
Tourist attractions within 2 km230
Park area within 2 km32 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzPaphos
Score2319
Notable places within 2 km1512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzPaphos
Score6270
Price level global73.761.4
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzPaphos
Score6586
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
AthensATH
3 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBiarritzPaphos
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m72 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzPaphos
City population26,20635,961
People per km²2,2401,987
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2436
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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.