VacationSelector

Bilbao or Innsbruck?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Innsbruck
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BilbaoInnsbruck
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score310
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance0 km217 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 16 points.16
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score6246
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840270
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Innsbruck leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score3848
Museums within 10 km2534
Museums within 2 km of centre1221
Share of museums within 2 km %4862
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 24 points.24
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score5834
Drinking venues within 4 km869271
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8480
Nightclubs within 4 km5016
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 7 points.7
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score5360
Protected land share 50 km %1131
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares38 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 2 points.2
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score4745
Tourist attractions within 2 km1718
Park area within 2 km119 hectares38 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 7 points.7
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score5245
Notable places within 2 km7953
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 12 points.12
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score7159
Price level global60.876.9
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 11 points.11
BilbaoInnsbruck
Score7059
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C3.9 °C to 25.6 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm40 mm to 144 mm
Dry months01
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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Innsbruck
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoInnsbruck
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 124 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 124 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 124 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

MeasureBilbaoInnsbruck
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m574 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoInnsbruck
City population351,124132,499
People per km²8,4401,263
Museums within 10 km1727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5447
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.