VacationSelector

Bilbao or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BilbaoBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.2
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score3133
Swim season months14
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score6267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8401,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score3866
Museums within 10 km25148
Museums within 2 km of centre1271
Share of museums within 2 km %4848
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score5868
Drinking venues within 4 km8691,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8460
Nightclubs within 4 km50160
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score5343
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %7067
Park area within 2 km119 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score4769
Tourist attractions within 2 km1749
Park area within 2 km119 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km06
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score5260
Notable places within 2 km79125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score7182
Price level global60.845.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoBuenos Aires
Score7075
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months00
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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoBuenos Aires
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 5 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBilbaoBuenos Aires
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation19 m25 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoBuenos Aires
City population351,1243,121,707
People per km²8,44015,355
Museums within 10 km1775
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5455
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month4 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. 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.

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.