VacationSelector

Bilbao or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

Tampa
44
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.

BilbaoTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 44 points.44
BilbaoTampa
Score3175
Swim season months18
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoTampa
Score6254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Bilbao leads by 11 points.11
BilbaoTampa
Score3827
Museums within 10 km2513
Museums within 2 km of centre1210
Share of museums within 2 km %4877
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 19 points.19
BilbaoTampa
Score5839
Drinking venues within 4 km869324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8470
Nightclubs within 4 km5026
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 23 points.23
BilbaoTampa
Score5330
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7072
Park area within 2 km119 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
BilbaoTampa
Score4730
Tourist attractions within 2 km173
Park area within 2 km119 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 31 points.31
BilbaoTampa
Score5221
Notable places within 2 km7913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 28 points.28
BilbaoTampa
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoTampa
Score7075
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoTampa
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureBilbaoTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoTampa
City population351,124384,959
People per km²8,440848
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5447
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month8 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.