VacationSelector

Biarritz or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
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.

BiarritzTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzTampa
Score6775
Swim season months28
Beaches 10 km4310
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 22 points.22
BiarritzTampa
Score3254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1331
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzTampa
Score3127
Museums within 10 km1613
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %3177
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 24 points.24
BiarritzTampa
Score1539
Drinking venues within 4 km105324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km626
Nature & day trips. Biarritz and Tampa are level on 30.
BiarritzTampa
Score3030
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6472
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzTampa
Score2130
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzTampa
Score2321
Notable places within 2 km1513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzTampa
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzTampa
Score6575
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzTampa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureBiarritzTampa
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m30 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzTampa
City population26,206384,959
People per km²2,240848
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2447
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months8 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.