VacationSelector

Bilbao or Bodrum?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bilbao
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BilbaoBodrum
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 46 points.46
BilbaoBodrum
Score3177
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 12 points.12
BilbaoBodrum
Score6250
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840444
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2620
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 18 points.18
BilbaoBodrum
Score3820
Museums within 10 km255
Museums within 2 km of centre124
Share of museums within 2 km %4880
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 13 points.13
BilbaoBodrum
Score5845
Drinking venues within 4 km869418
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730334
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8480
Nightclubs within 4 km5060
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 34 points.34
BilbaoBodrum
Score5319
Protected land share 50 km %115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7035
Park area within 2 km119 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 25 points.25
BilbaoBodrum
Score4722
Tourist attractions within 2 km1715
Park area within 2 km119 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 34 points.34
BilbaoBodrum
Score5218
Notable places within 2 km7911
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 18 points.18
BilbaoBodrum
Score7189
Price level global60.835.2
Daily budget€122€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 7 points.7
BilbaoBodrum
Score7077
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C13.8 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm0 mm to 147 mm
Dry months05
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
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Bodrum
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoBodrum
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 km
AthensATH
3 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 50 m
€157-160
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBilbaoBodrum
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m10 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoBodrum
City population351,124175,000
People per km²8,440314
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5430
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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.