VacationSelector

Bilbao or Miami?

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, 2 points apart

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BilbaoMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 64 points.64
BilbaoMiami
Score3195
Swim season months112
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 3 points.3
BilbaoMiami
Score6265
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 15 points.15
BilbaoMiami
Score3823
Museums within 10 km2528
Museums within 2 km of centre126
Share of museums within 2 km %4821
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoMiami
Score5850
Drinking venues within 4 km869538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8453
Nightclubs within 4 km5063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 19 points.19
BilbaoMiami
Score5372
Protected land share 50 km %1116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7048
Park area within 2 km119 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 3 points.3
BilbaoMiami
Score4744
Tourist attractions within 2 km1714
Park area within 2 km119 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoMiami
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoMiami
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 4 points.4
BilbaoMiami
Score7074
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months00
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoMiami
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureBilbaoMiami
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation19 m2 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoMiami
City population351,124442,241
People per km²8,4403,046
Museums within 10 km1717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5439
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 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. 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.