VacationSelector

Bilbao or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BilbaoJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 30 points.30
BilbaoJakarta
Score3161
Swim season months112
Beaches 10 km15
Coast distance0 km8 km
Water distance0 km8 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 6 points.6
BilbaoJakarta
Score6256
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoJakarta
Score3828
Museums within 10 km2526
Museums within 2 km of centre1210
Share of museums within 2 km %4838
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoJakarta
Score5857
Drinking venues within 4 km8691,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8436
Nightclubs within 4 km5010
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoJakarta
Score5354
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7072
Park area within 2 km119 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 14 points.14
BilbaoJakarta
Score4733
Tourist attractions within 2 km172
Park area within 2 km119 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoJakarta
Score5247
Notable places within 2 km7958
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 22 points.22
BilbaoJakarta
Score7193
Price level global60.829.9
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoJakarta
Score7061
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm39 mm to 360 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
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
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). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBilbaoJakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m91 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoJakarta
City population351,12411,135,191
People per km²8,44016,821
Museums within 10 km1744
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5435
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.