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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Biarritz or West Palm Beach?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, West Palm Beach 52: Biarritz leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz and West Palm Beach are level on 36.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, West Palm Beach 58: Biarritz leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, West Palm Beach 55: Biarritz leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Biarritz 62, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, West Palm Beach 38: Biarritz leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, West Palm Beach 23: Biarritz leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, West Palm Beach 44: Biarritz leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on shopping and beaches 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BiarritzWest Palm Beach

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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 centre25 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.