VacationSelector

Biarritz or Toronto?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BiarritzToronto
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 24 points.24
BiarritzToronto
Score6743
Swim season months21
Beaches 10 km4358
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 50 points.50
BiarritzToronto
Score3282
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2072,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1339
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 12 points.12
BiarritzToronto
Score3143
Museums within 10 km1635
Museums within 2 km of centre525
Share of museums within 2 km %3171
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 54 points.54
BiarritzToronto
Score1569
Drinking venues within 4 km1051,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km6103
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzToronto
Score3026
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 36 points.36
BiarritzToronto
Score2157
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km32 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzToronto
Score2361
Notable places within 2 km15128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzToronto
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzToronto
Score6555
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm51 mm to 85 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Toronto
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureBiarritzToronto
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m76 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzToronto
City population26,2062,794,356
People per km²2,2404,434
Museums within 10 km832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre24102
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months1 month

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Biarritz or Toronto somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.