VacationSelector

Biarritz or Reykjavik?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BiarritzReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzReykjavik
Score6760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4333
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 17 points.17
BiarritzReykjavik
Score3249
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1329
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzReykjavik
Score3150
Museums within 10 km1634
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %3168
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzReykjavik
Score1527
Drinking venues within 4 km105192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7886
Nightclubs within 4 km610
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzReykjavik
Score3059
Protected land share 50 km %616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6456
Park area within 2 km32 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzReykjavik
Score2142
Tourist attractions within 2 km221
Park area within 2 km32 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 25 points.25
BiarritzReykjavik
Score2348
Notable places within 2 km1561
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzReykjavik
Score6241
Price level global73.7102.8
Daily budget€160€243
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzReykjavik
Score6537
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzReykjavik
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
4 h 25 m
€240-369
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 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

MeasureBiarritzReykjavik
Official languageFrenchIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m8 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzReykjavik
City population26,206138,772
People per km²2,240569
Museums within 10 km823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2442
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.