VacationSelector

Bilbao or Toronto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bilbao
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

BilbaoToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 12 points.12
BilbaoToronto
Score3143
Swim season months11
Beaches 10 km158
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 20 points.20
BilbaoToronto
Score6282
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8402,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoToronto
Score3843
Museums within 10 km2535
Museums within 2 km of centre1225
Share of museums within 2 km %4871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
BilbaoToronto
Score5869
Drinking venues within 4 km8691,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre730966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8464
Nightclubs within 4 km50103
Nature & day trips. Bilbao leads by 27 points.27
BilbaoToronto
Score5326
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 10 points.10
BilbaoToronto
Score4757
Tourist attractions within 2 km1723
Park area within 2 km119 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
BilbaoToronto
Score5261
Notable places within 2 km79128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 17 points.17
BilbaoToronto
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 15 points.15
BilbaoToronto
Score7055
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoToronto
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€58-78
BIO · 5 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 30 m
€129-223
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureBilbaoToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation19 m76 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoToronto
City population351,1242,794,356
People per km²8,4404,434
Museums within 10 km1732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre54102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month1 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.