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Baden-Baden or Bilbao?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
Bilbao

Photo: José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Baden-Baden
50
match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Bilbao
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenBilbao
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 37 points.37
Food & drink. Bilbao leads by 36 points.36
Culture & sights. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 39 points.39
Nature & outdoors. Bilbao leads by 5 points.5
Day trips. Baden-Baden and Bilbao are level on 78.
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 5 points.5
Getting around. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
Shopping & style. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
Affordability. Bilbao leads by 14 points.14
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 63 points.63
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Bilbao.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenBilbao
Daytime high25 °C25 °C
Night-time low14 °C16 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm54 mm
Sunshine8 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea21 °C
Daylight16 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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M
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Daytime high, °C
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Baden-Baden
No coastline within reach
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenBilbao
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BSL · 140 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 51 km
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
SevillaSVQ
2 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 15 m
€136-156
FKB · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€81-137
BIO · 5 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€60-79
BIO · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 140 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 143 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBaden-BadenBilbao
Official languageGermanSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation181 m19 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenBilbao
City population56,952351,124
People per km²4068,440
Museums within 10 km1117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.