VacationSelector

Bilbao or The Hague?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
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.

BilbaoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 29 points.29
BilbaoThe Hague
Score3160
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoThe Hague
Score6270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre840798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
BilbaoThe Hague
Score3862
Museums within 10 km2546
Museums within 2 km of centre1226
Share of museums within 2 km %4857
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Bilbao leads by 12 points.12
BilbaoThe Hague
Score5846
Drinking venues within 4 km869511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8456
Nightclubs within 4 km5019
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoThe Hague
Score5354
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7056
Park area within 2 km119 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoThe Hague
Score4756
Tourist attractions within 2 km1710
Park area within 2 km119 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
BilbaoThe Hague
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 13 points.13
BilbaoThe Hague
Score7158
Price level global60.879.2
Daily budget€122€181
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 16 points.16
BilbaoThe Hague
Score7054
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoThe Hague
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€198-297
RTM · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 45 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 15 m
no fares
BIQ · 116 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 16 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

MeasureBilbaoThe Hague
Official languageSpanishDutch
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 or 911
Elevation19 m1 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoThe Hague
City population351,124548,320
People per km²8,4405,589
Museums within 10 km1754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5477
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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.