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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
BilbaoThe Guggenheim Museum on the river

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Bilbao by José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Bilbao?

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 Amman for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Bilbao for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bilbao’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. Amman 22, Bilbao 45: Bilbao leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Bilbao 81: Bilbao leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Bilbao 62: Bilbao leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Bilbao 54: Bilbao leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Bilbao 75: Bilbao leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Bilbao 78: Amman leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Bilbao 55: Bilbao leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Bilbao 79: Bilbao leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Bilbao 47: Bilbao leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Bilbao 44: Amman leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Bilbao 53: Bilbao leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Bilbao 33: Amman leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Bilbao.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Bilbao
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Bilbao in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanBilbao
Official languageArabicSpanish
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation776 m19 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanBilbao
City population4,007,526351,124
People per km²2,3858,440
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.