VacationSelector

Biarritz or Toulouse?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toulouse
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families 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.

The verdict

Choose Biarritz if the sea is the point: 43 beaches nearby and 2 months of water warm enough to swim in, on a coast that stays mild and wet through the year.

Choose Toulouse if you want a city to spend time in: far more restaurants, museums and bars near the centre, more to do with children, and hotter, drier summers than the coast offers.

Scoreboard

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

BiarritzToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzToulouse
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km431
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 38 points.38
BiarritzToulouse
Score3270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1337
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzToulouse
Score3151
Museums within 10 km1627
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %3167
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzToulouse
Score1543
Drinking venues within 4 km105389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7888
Nightclubs within 4 km636
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 9 points.9
BiarritzToulouse
Score3021
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 45 points.45
BiarritzToulouse
Score2166
Tourist attractions within 2 km280
Park area within 2 km32 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzToulouse
Score2351
Notable places within 2 km1572
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz and Toulouse are level on 62.
BiarritzToulouse
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzToulouse
Score6571
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

Where they differ

Biarritz has 43 beaches within reach against Toulouse's 1, and 2 months when the sea sits at 21°C or more, which Toulouse never manages. More of the land around it is protected, 6% against 1%, which shapes the day trips.

Toulouse has many times as many restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens, many times as many attractions for children, 2 theme parks within reach against Biarritz's 1, and far more notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Where they are alike

Both are warmest in August and coolest in January, and neither has a harsh season: Biarritz runs 13-26°C across the year, Toulouse 10-29°C. Either works outside summer if you accept cooler days.

Nature and day trips are the other near match. Neither city is defined by them, though each has 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and both keep their park space near the centre rather than out of town.

Which traveller are you?

If you plan your day around swimming or walking the coast, Biarritz is the clear pick: 43 beaches nearby, a sea reaching 22°C in August, and a far larger share of protected land around it.

Families do better in Toulouse, with many times as many attractions near the centre, more park space within walking reach, and 2 theme parks in range against Biarritz's 1.

For eating out and going out, Toulouse again: many times the restaurants near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, about three times as many places to drink, and most of them walkable from the centre.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: it is a national price level applied to both, identical by construction rather than measured in either city. The €160 a day quoted beside it is one national estimate, not a trait of Biarritz or Toulouse, so treat neither as the cheaper trip.

Biarritz's beach strength is seasonal. The sea reaches 21°C or more in only 2 months, and rainfall is high all year, heaviest in autumn and early winter, so a trip outside summer gets the coast without the swimming. Toulouse runs hotter in summer but colder in winter.

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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F
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toulouse
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
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3

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). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Biarritz suits July to September: highs of 25-26°C and a sea at 21-22°C, the only stretch warm enough for easy swimming. Rain never stops entirely, though; even the driest month brings 97mm, and the wettest reaches 224mm.

Toulouse has the longer window, June to September, with highs climbing to 29°C and summer rainfall of 40-46mm. Its spring is wetter than its summer, and in January days reach 10°C against Biarritz's 13°C, so winter tips back to the coast.

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 20 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AlicanteALC
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 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

MeasureBiarritzToulouse
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m115 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzToulouse
City population26,206514,819
People per km²2,2404,352
Museums within 10 km824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre24101
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.