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The Guggenheim Museum on the river, Bilbao
BilbaoThe Guggenheim Museum on the river
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Bilbao by José Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bilbao or West Palm Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bilbao for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Bilbao’s own page.

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bilbao 45, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Bilbao 81, West Palm Beach 52: Bilbao leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Bilbao 62, West Palm Beach 42: Bilbao leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bilbao 54, West Palm Beach 36: Bilbao leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bilbao 75, West Palm Beach 58: Bilbao leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bilbao 78, West Palm Beach 55: Bilbao leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bilbao 55, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bilbao 79, West Palm Beach 38: Bilbao leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Bilbao 47, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Bilbao 44, West Palm Beach 23: Bilbao leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bilbao 53, West Palm Beach 47: Bilbao leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bilbao 33, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bilbao and West Palm Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bilbao
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bilbao in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BilbaoWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBilbaoWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre73 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoWest Palm Beach
City population351,124117,415
People per km²8,440786
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.