VacationSelector

Biarritz or Plovdiv?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Plovdiv
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BiarritzPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km431
Coast distance1 km130 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Plovdiv leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score3246
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1319
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score3138
Museums within 10 km1626
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %31100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score1542
Drinking venues within 4 km105392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7873
Nightclubs within 4 km626
Nature & day trips. Plovdiv leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score3037
Protected land share 50 km %65
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Plovdiv leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score2131
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km32 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 18 points.18
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score2341
Notable places within 2 km1541
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 37 points.37
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score6299
Price level global73.721.4
Daily budget€160€77
Year-round weather. Biarritz and Plovdiv are level on 65.
BiarritzPlovdiv
Score6565
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm25 mm to 81 mm
Dry months02
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
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

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). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzPlovdiv
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
SOF · 125 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

MeasureBiarritzPlovdiv
Official languageFrenchBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m172 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzPlovdiv
City population26,206333,994
People per km²2,2403,274
Museums within 10 km818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2436
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. 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.