VacationSelector

Bilbao or Limassol?

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 sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BilbaoLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 48 points.48
BilbaoLimassol
Score3179
Swim season months16
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 19 points.19
BilbaoLimassol
Score6243
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
BilbaoLimassol
Score3844
Museums within 10 km2517
Museums within 2 km of centre1210
Share of museums within 2 km %4859
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 19 points.19
BilbaoLimassol
Score5839
Drinking venues within 4 km869340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8475
Nightclubs within 4 km5020
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoLimassol
Score5322
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7049
Park area within 2 km119 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoLimassol
Score4716
Tourist attractions within 2 km173
Park area within 2 km119 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 38 points.38
BilbaoLimassol
Score5214
Notable places within 2 km799
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoLimassol
Score7170
Price level global60.861.4
Daily budget€122€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 15 points.15
BilbaoLimassol
Score7085
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 50 m
no fares
SDR · 74 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AthensATH
3 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 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

MeasureBilbaoLimassol
Official languageSpanishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m10 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoLimassol
City population351,124107,970
People per km²8,4402,405
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5428
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month6 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.