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The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
BilbaoThe Guggenheim Museum on the river
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Bilbao by José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bilbao or Naples?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bilbao for

  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bilbao’s own page.

Choose Naples for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bilbao 45, Naples 50: Naples leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bilbao 81, Naples 83: Naples leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bilbao 62, Naples 87: Naples leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Bilbao 54, Naples 60: Naples leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bilbao 75, Naples 77: Naples leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bilbao 78, Naples 96: Naples leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Bilbao 55, Naples 45: Bilbao leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bilbao 79, Naples 54: Bilbao leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Bilbao 47, Naples 60: Naples leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Bilbao 44, Naples 63: Naples leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bilbao 53, Naples 66: Naples leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bilbao 33, Naples 44: Naples leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bilbao and Naples.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bilbao
59match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bilbao in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Naples has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBilbaoNaples
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m17 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoNaples
City population351,124913,462
People per km²8,4407,676
Museums within 10 km1765
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.