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The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
BilbaoThe Guggenheim Museum on the river
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Bilbao by José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bilbao or Deer Valley?

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 Bilbao for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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. Bilbao 45, Deer Valley 10: Bilbao leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Bilbao 81, Deer Valley 38: Bilbao leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Bilbao 62, Deer Valley 15: Bilbao leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Bilbao 54, Deer Valley 25: Bilbao leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bilbao 75, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Bilbao 78, Deer Valley 38: Bilbao leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Bilbao 55, Deer Valley 60: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bilbao 79, Deer Valley 50: Bilbao leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Bilbao 47, Deer Valley 25: Bilbao leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Bilbao 44, Deer Valley 4: Bilbao leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bilbao 53, Deer Valley 30: Bilbao leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bilbao 33, Deer Valley 52: Deer Valley leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bilbao and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Bilbao
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on wellness 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.

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBilbaoDeer Valley
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation19 m2,474 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoDeer Valley
City population351,124-
People per km²8,440-
Museums within 10 km170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

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.