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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
BilbaoThe Guggenheim Museum on the river

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Bilbao by José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Bilbao for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Antibes 80, Bilbao 45: Antibes leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Bilbao 81: Bilbao leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Bilbao 62: Bilbao leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Bilbao 54: Bilbao leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Bilbao 75: Bilbao leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Bilbao 78: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antibes and Bilbao are level on 55.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Bilbao 79: Bilbao leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Bilbao 47: Bilbao leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Bilbao 44: Bilbao leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Bilbao 53: Bilbao leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Bilbao 33: Antibes leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Bilbao.

Your match

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

Antibes
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Bilbao
Best match
59match

Wins on food and drink 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.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesBilbao
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m19 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesBilbao
City population77,637351,124
People per km²2,9308,440
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.