VacationSelector

Biarritz or San Francisco?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BiarritzSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score6760
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4344
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 51 points.51
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score3283
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2072,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1339
Museums & heritage. San Francisco leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score3144
Museums within 10 km1657
Museums within 2 km of centre529
Share of museums within 2 km %3151
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 53 points.53
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score1568
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km697
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 30 points.30
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score3060
Protected land share 50 km %617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %6457
Park area within 2 km32 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 36 points.36
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score2157
Tourist attractions within 2 km248
Park area within 2 km32 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 40 points.40
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score2363
Notable places within 2 km15147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzSan Francisco
Score6578
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months07
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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
San Francisco
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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzSan Francisco
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 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

MeasureBiarritzSan Francisco
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m16 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzSan Francisco
City population26,206873,965
People per km²2,2401,455
Museums within 10 km850
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre24108
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.