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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Biarritz or Valparaiso?

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

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Biarritz leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Valparaiso 50: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Valparaiso 60: Biarritz leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Valparaiso 63: Biarritz leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, Valparaiso 33: Biarritz leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Valparaiso 44: Biarritz leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Valparaiso 30: Biarritz leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz and Valparaiso are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Valparaiso 18: Biarritz leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzValparaiso
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzValparaiso
City population26,206296,655
People per km²2,2406,180
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.