VacationSelector

Bilbao or Killarney?

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 nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Killarney
21
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BilbaoKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoKillarney
Score3123
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 40 points.40
BilbaoKillarney
Score6222
Restaurants within 2 km of centre84065
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoKillarney
Score3810
Museums within 10 km250
Museums within 2 km of centre120
Share of museums within 2 km %48
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 55 points.55
BilbaoKillarney
Score583
Drinking venues within 4 km86972
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre73057
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8479
Nightclubs within 4 km500
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 44 points.44
BilbaoKillarney
Score539
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7086
Park area within 2 km119 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 39 points.39
BilbaoKillarney
Score478
Tourist attractions within 2 km174
Park area within 2 km119 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 42 points.42
BilbaoKillarney
Score5210
Notable places within 2 km797
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 14 points.14
BilbaoKillarney
Score7157
Price level global60.880.2
Daily budget€122€187
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 22 points.22
BilbaoKillarney
Score7048
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm91 mm to 187 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
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Killarney
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
4
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoKillarney
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
SevillaSVQ
1 h 30 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 74 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

MeasureBilbaoKillarney
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m50 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoKillarney
City population351,12414,412
People per km²8,440
Museums within 10 km171
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5419
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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.