VacationSelector

Bilbao or Prague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BilbaoPrague
Beaches & swimming. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoPrague
Score310
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 13 points.13
BilbaoPrague
Score6275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8401,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 34 points.34
BilbaoPrague
Score3872
Museums within 10 km25138
Museums within 2 km of centre12100
Share of museums within 2 km %4872
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 19 points.19
BilbaoPrague
Score5877
Drinking venues within 4 km8692,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7301,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8465
Nightclubs within 4 km50123
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoPrague
Score5345
Protected land share 50 km %1112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoPrague
Score4775
Tourist attractions within 2 km1754
Park area within 2 km119 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 24 points.24
BilbaoPrague
Score5276
Notable places within 2 km79310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 4 points.4
BilbaoPrague
Score7175
Price level global60.855.2
Daily budget€122€107
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoPrague
Score7061
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months07
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoPrague
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
MalagaAGP
1 h 35 m
€77-114
BIO · 5 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasureBilbaoPrague
Official languageSpanishCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m235 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoPrague
City population351,1241,397,880
People per km²8,4402,817
Museums within 10 km1788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5489
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.