VacationSelector

Biarritz or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BiarritzRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzRotterdam
Score6737
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4322
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 40 points.40
BiarritzRotterdam
Score3272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1346
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
BiarritzRotterdam
Score3160
Museums within 10 km1641
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %3149
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 34 points.34
BiarritzRotterdam
Score1549
Drinking venues within 4 km105542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km640
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzRotterdam
Score3042
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6479
Park area within 2 km32 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
BiarritzRotterdam
Score2162
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km32 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzRotterdam
Score2351
Notable places within 2 km1574
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzRotterdam
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzRotterdam
Score6556
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureBiarritzRotterdam
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzRotterdam
City population26,206664,311
People per km²2,2402,080
Museums within 10 km840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2477
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. 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.