VacationSelector

Bilbao or Dubrovnik?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

BilbaoDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 46 points.46
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score3177
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km143
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 24 points.24
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score6238
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score3849
Museums within 10 km2518
Museums within 2 km of centre1217
Share of museums within 2 km %4894
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 38 points.38
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score5820
Drinking venues within 4 km869128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8486
Nightclubs within 4 km5013
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 48 points.48
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score535
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %7051
Park area within 2 km119 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 26 points.26
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score4721
Tourist attractions within 2 km1712
Park area within 2 km119 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score5244
Notable places within 2 km7948
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoDubrovnik
Score7065
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoDubrovnik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 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

MeasureBilbaoDubrovnik
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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
Elevation19 m10 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoDubrovnik
City population351,12441,562
People per km²8,440
Museums within 10 km177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5432
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. 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.