VacationSelector

Bilbao or Kotor?

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.

Kotor
36
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.

BilbaoKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 46 points.46
BilbaoKotor
Score3177
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km150
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 36 points.36
BilbaoKotor
Score6226
Restaurants within 2 km of centre84071
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoKotor
Score3828
Museums within 10 km257
Museums within 2 km of centre123
Share of museums within 2 km %4843
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 54 points.54
BilbaoKotor
Score584
Drinking venues within 4 km86946
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre73038
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8483
Nightclubs within 4 km503
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 38 points.38
BilbaoKotor
Score5315
Protected land share 50 km %1110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %7066
Park area within 2 km119 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 38 points.38
BilbaoKotor
Score479
Tourist attractions within 2 km178
Park area within 2 km119 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoKotor
Score5221
Notable places within 2 km7913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 16 points.16
BilbaoKotor
Score7187
Price level global60.838.9
Daily budget€122€95
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoKotor
Score7061
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm38 mm to 256 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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Kotor
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
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kotor
10
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
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoKotor
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 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

MeasureBilbaoKotor
Official languageSpanishMontenegrin
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 destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoKotor
City population351,124562
People per km²8,440
Museums within 10 km173
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5427
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.