VacationSelector

Bilbao or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 53 points.53
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score3184
Swim season months112
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score6245
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 18 points.18
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score3820
Museums within 10 km2514
Museums within 2 km of centre126
Share of museums within 2 km %4843
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 24 points.24
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score5834
Drinking venues within 4 km869259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8456
Nightclubs within 4 km5018
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score5381
Protected land share 50 km %1120
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7051
Park area within 2 km119 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score4719
Tourist attractions within 2 km172
Park area within 2 km119 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 52 points.52
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score520
Notable places within 2 km792
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 6 points.6
BilbaoFort Lauderdale
Score7076
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Fort Lauderdale
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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoFort Lauderdale
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureBilbaoFort Lauderdale
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation19 m11 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoFort Lauderdale
City population351,124182,760
People per km²8,4401,829
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5425
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 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.