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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Telluride?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Biarritz for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Biarritz’s own page.

Choose Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Biarritz 68, Telluride 5: Biarritz leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Telluride 38: Biarritz leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Telluride 20: Biarritz leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Telluride 20: Biarritz leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Telluride 30: Biarritz leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Telluride 45: Biarritz leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Telluride 25: Biarritz leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Telluride 7: Biarritz leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Telluride 35: Biarritz leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Telluride 45: Biarritz leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Telluride.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Telluride has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzTelluride
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,667 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzTelluride
City population26,2062,607
People per km²2,2401,372
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.