Biarritz or Toledo?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Too close to call, 2 points apart
Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.
Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.
What matters to you?
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.
The verdict
Choose Biarritz if the sea decides your trip: 43 beaches nearby, water at 21°C or more in late summer, and a small town where summer heat stays moderate.
Choose Toledo if you want a compact heritage city you can walk, with far more notable places and attractions close to the centre, more to keep children occupied, and long dry spells in spring and autumn.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 67 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 2 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 43 | 1 |
| Coast distance | 1 km | 320 km |
| Water distance | 1 km | — |
Places to eat. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 32 | 24 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 207 | 249 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 13 | 7 |
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 15 points.15
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 31 | 46 |
| Museums within 10 km | 16 | 19 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 5 | 19 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 31 | 100 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 2 | 2 |
Nightlife. Toledo leads by 2 points.2
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 15 | 17 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 105 | 120 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 82 | 115 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 78 | 96 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 6 | 5 |
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 2 points.2
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 30 | 28 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 6 | 4 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 64 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 32 hectares | 59 hectares |
Good for families. Toledo leads by 33 points.33
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 21 | 54 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 2 | 32 |
| Park area within 2 km | 32 hectares | 59 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 1 | 1 |
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 23 points.23
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 23 | 46 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 15 | 55 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Toledo leads by 9 points.9
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 71 |
| Price level global | 73.7 | 60.8 |
| Daily budget | €160 | €122 |
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 9 points.9
| Biarritz | Toledo | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 65 | 74 |
| Monthly daytime high | 13.1 °C to 25.8 °C | 11.9 °C to 35.1 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 97 mm to 224 mm | 6 mm to 49 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 11 |
Where they differ
Biarritz has 43 beaches nearby where Toledo has 1, and two months when the sea reaches 21°C or more, which Toledo has none of. It also offers a much wider range of kitchens for eating out.
Toledo has many times as many tourist attractions near the centre and about twice as much park space, which is what makes it the easier city with children. Roughly three times as many notable places lie within walking distance of the centre, and its museums sit tightly around it too.
Where they are alike
Neither is a late-night city. They have about as many places to drink as each other, Biarritz with somewhat more nightclubs, and in both they sit near the centre, so an evening out is a short walk rather than a plan.
Both keep day trips modest, with 6% of the land around Biarritz protected against 4% around Toledo, and each has 2 UNESCO-listed places within reach. The number of restaurants near the centre is fairly close as well.
Which traveller are you?
If the point of the trip is swimming and surf, Biarritz is the only real option: 43 beaches nearby against a single one at Toledo, and sea reaching 21-22°C in late summer.
Travelling with children, Toledo does more, with many times as many attractions near the centre and about twice as much park space, though each has 1 theme park within reach anyway.
For eating and evenings, Biarritz has the wider spread of kitchens and slightly more nightclubs, though drinking places are about equal in number and central in both, so neither will fill many late nights.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €160 and €122, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A small resort town and a heavily visited heritage city can each sit well away from their country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so treat them as country context rather than a comparison of these two places.
Both weather pictures hide their worst weeks. Toledo's dry warmth includes midsummer at 35°C, and Biarritz's beach appeal narrows to the two months when the sea is 21°C or more, which are also its busiest.
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.
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).
Biarritz suits July and August, when highs reach 25-26°C and the sea sits at 21-22°C. Those are also its driest months, at around 97mm, and rain is heavy for much of the rest of the year, worst in November.
Toledo is better in May and September, with highs of 25°C and 29°C and rainfall under 40mm. Midsummer pushes to 35°C, hard work in a dense centre, and January highs of 12°C make winter a short-daylight proposition.
Getting there
| Flying from | Biarritz | Toledo |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 30 m €129-164 BIQ · 3 km | 1 h 55 m €95-123 MAD · 80 km |
| PalmaPMI | 1 h 25 m no fares BIO · 111 km | 1 h 20 m €56-238 MAD · 80 km |
| TenerifeTFS, TFN | 3 h 10 m no fares BIO · 111 km | 2 h 50 m €109-153 MAD · 80 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 2 h 0 m €196-210 1 stop BIO · 111 km | 2 h 25 m €175-213 MAD · 80 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 45 m €126-289 1 stop BIQ · 3 km | 2 h 10 m €52-105 MAD · 80 km |
| MunichMUC | 2 h 10 m €203-242 1 stop BIO · 111 km | 2 h 25 m €193-236 1 stop MAD · 80 km |
| FrankfurtFRA, HHN | 2 h 0 m no fares BIO · 111 km | 2 h 20 m €121-231 1 stop MAD · 80 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 10 m no fares EAS · 23 km | 1 h 15 m €116-130 1 stop MAD · 80 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 7 h 20 m no fares BIO · 111 km | 7 h 25 m €496-659 1 stop MAD · 80 km |
| MarrakechRAK | 2 h 15 m no fares BIO · 111 km | 1 h 55 m no fares MAD · 80 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
| Measure | Biarritz | Toledo |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French | Spanish |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CE230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 0 m | 523 m |
| Main airport | Biarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinations | Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Biarritz | Toledo |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 26,206 | 87,216 |
| People per km² | 2,240 | 376 |
| Museums within 10 km | 8 | 13 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 2 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 24 | 13 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 2 months | – |
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