VacationSelector

Bilbao or Lima?

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, 1 point apart

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BilbaoLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 6 points.6
BilbaoLima
Score3137
Swim season months12
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance0 km6 km
Water distance0 km6 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoLima
Score6252
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 26 points.26
BilbaoLima
Score3864
Museums within 10 km2589
Museums within 2 km of centre1247
Share of museums within 2 km %4853
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 13 points.13
BilbaoLima
Score5845
Drinking venues within 4 km869409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8443
Nightclubs within 4 km5063
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 26 points.26
BilbaoLima
Score5327
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7051
Park area within 2 km119 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoLima
Score4756
Tourist attractions within 2 km1725
Park area within 2 km119 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 6 points.6
BilbaoLima
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7954
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoLima
Score7180
Price level global60.847.7
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 22 points.22
BilbaoLima
Score7092
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm0 mm to 1 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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoLima
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 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

MeasureBilbaoLima
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation19 m154 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoLima
City population351,1249,943,800
People per km²8,4403,721
Museums within 10 km1746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5433
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month2 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. 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.