VacationSelector

Bilbao or Sorrento?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
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.

BilbaoSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 46 points.46
BilbaoSorrento
Score3177
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km178
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 43 points.43
BilbaoSorrento
Score6219
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km265
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoSorrento
Score3837
Museums within 10 km257
Museums within 2 km of centre124
Share of museums within 2 km %4857
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 36 points.36
BilbaoSorrento
Score5822
Drinking venues within 4 km869179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8473
Nightclubs within 4 km502
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 30 points.30
BilbaoSorrento
Score5323
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7042
Park area within 2 km119 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 42 points.42
BilbaoSorrento
Score475
Tourist attractions within 2 km172
Park area within 2 km119 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 42 points.42
BilbaoSorrento
Score5210
Notable places within 2 km797
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 3 points.3
BilbaoSorrento
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 3 points.3
BilbaoSorrento
Score7073
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 5 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBilbaoSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoSorrento
City population351,12415,407
People per km²8,4401,541
Museums within 10 km175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5411
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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.