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Biarritz or Sydney?

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.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
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.

BiarritzSydney
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzSydney
Score6760
Swim season months26
Beaches 10 km43160
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 46 points.46
BiarritzSydney
Score3278
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2072,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1331
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzSydney
Score3151
Museums within 10 km1644
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %3145
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
BiarritzSydney
Score1575
Drinking venues within 4 km1052,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre821,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7869
Nightclubs within 4 km6120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzSydney
Score3058
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6452
Park area within 2 km32 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 43 points.43
BiarritzSydney
Score2164
Tourist attractions within 2 km237
Park area within 2 km32 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 37 points.37
BiarritzSydney
Score2360
Notable places within 2 km15123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzSydney
Score6250
Price level global73.790.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
BiarritzSydney
Score6581
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzSydney
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 111 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureBiarritzSydney
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzSydney
City population26,2065,450,496
People per km²2,240449
Museums within 10 km838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2479
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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.