VacationSelector

Biarritz or West Palm Beach?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score6788
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km4310
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score3237
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1314
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 14 points.14
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score3117
Museums within 10 km165
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %3160
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.5
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score1520
Drinking venues within 4 km105132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km610
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 39 points.39
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score3069
Protected land share 50 km %615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6445
Park area within 2 km32 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Biarritz and West Palm Beach are level on 21.
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score2121
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km32 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Biarritz leads by 11 points.11
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score2312
Notable places within 2 km158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Biarritz leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzWest Palm Beach
Score6575
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureBiarritzWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzWest Palm Beach
City population26,206117,415
People per km²2,240786
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2418
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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. 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.