VacationSelector

Bilbao or Krakow?

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

Your match

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BilbaoKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoKrakow
Score310
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance0 km456 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
BilbaoKrakow
Score6268
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8401,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2630
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 37 points.37
BilbaoKrakow
Score3875
Museums within 10 km2584
Museums within 2 km of centre1269
Share of museums within 2 km %4882
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoKrakow
Score5857
Drinking venues within 4 km869836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8483
Nightclubs within 4 km5054
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 7 points.7
BilbaoKrakow
Score5346
Protected land share 50 km %1114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 27 points.27
BilbaoKrakow
Score4774
Tourist attractions within 2 km1777
Park area within 2 km119 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 16 points.16
BilbaoKrakow
Score5268
Notable places within 2 km79198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoKrakow
Score7179
Price level global60.849
Daily budget€122€133
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 12 points.12
BilbaoKrakow
Score7058
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months04
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Krakow
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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureBilbaoKrakow
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m219 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoKrakow
City population351,124804,237
People per km²8,4402,459
Museums within 10 km17114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5468
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. 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.