VacationSelector

Bilbao or Split?

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.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

BilbaoSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 42 points.42
BilbaoSplit
Score3173
Swim season months14
Beaches 10 km187
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 24 points.24
BilbaoSplit
Score6238
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 14 points.14
BilbaoSplit
Score3852
Museums within 10 km2518
Museums within 2 km of centre1216
Share of museums within 2 km %4889
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
BilbaoSplit
Score5841
Drinking venues within 4 km869379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8469
Nightclubs within 4 km5023
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 15 points.15
BilbaoSplit
Score5338
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7062
Park area within 2 km119 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 21 points.21
BilbaoSplit
Score4726
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km119 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoSplit
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7943
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoSplit
Score7180
Price level global60.848.5
Daily budget€122€138
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoSplit
Score7069
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Bilbao
14
14
17
18
21
24
25
26
25
21
17
14
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€77-99
BIO · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 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

MeasureBilbaoSplit
Official languageSpanishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation19 m0 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoSplit
City population351,124160,577
People per km²8,440
Museums within 10 km1711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5431
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month4 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.