VacationSelector

Bilbao or Las Vegas?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

BilbaoLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score310
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance0 km372 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao and Las Vegas are level on 62.
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score6262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 19 points.19
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score3819
Museums within 10 km2524
Museums within 2 km of centre124
Share of museums within 2 km %4817
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao and Las Vegas are level on 58.
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score5858
Drinking venues within 4 km869793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8461
Nightclubs within 4 km5090
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score5363
Protected land share 50 km %1150
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 13 points.13
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score4734
Tourist attractions within 2 km1719
Park area within 2 km119 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score5251
Notable places within 2 km7975
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
BilbaoLas Vegas
Score7072
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Las Vegas
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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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

MeasureBilbaoLas Vegas
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation19 m610 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoLas Vegas
City population351,124641,903
People per km²8,4401,843
Museums within 10 km1721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5449
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.