VacationSelector

Biarritz or Tromso?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Biarritz
✓ Best match
38
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BiarritzTromso
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 15 points.15
BiarritzTromso
Score6752
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km4314
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzTromso
Score3224
Restaurants within 2 km of centre20785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1316
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzTromso
Score3123
Museums within 10 km1610
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %3180
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzTromso
Score157
Drinking venues within 4 km10567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7891
Nightclubs within 4 km65
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzTromso
Score3011
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6465
Park area within 2 km32 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Biarritz leads by 7 points.7
BiarritzTromso
Score2114
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km32 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzTromso
Score2328
Notable places within 2 km1520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 8 points.8
BiarritzTromso
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Biarritz leads by 32 points.32
BiarritzTromso
Score6533
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm56 mm to 128 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzTromso
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 30 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureBiarritzTromso
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzTromso
City population26,20679,943
People per km²2,24032
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2423
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.