VacationSelector

Biarritz or Quebec City?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BiarritzQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzQuebec City
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km439
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 23 points.23
BiarritzQuebec City
Score3255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1331
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzQuebec City
Score3146
Museums within 10 km1626
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %3173
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzQuebec City
Score1531
Drinking venues within 4 km105250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km68
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzQuebec City
Score3043
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzQuebec City
Score2150
Tourist attractions within 2 km212
Park area within 2 km32 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzQuebec City
Score2343
Notable places within 2 km1547
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzQuebec City
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzQuebec City
Score6546
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months00
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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Quebec City
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). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBiarritzQuebec City
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m98 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzQuebec City
City population26,206574,482
People per km²2,2401,184
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2447
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.