VacationSelector

Bilbao or Yokohama?

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 sights concentration and year-round weather with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BilbaoYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 18 points.18
BilbaoYokohama
Score3149
Swim season months15
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
BilbaoYokohama
Score6278
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8403,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 15 points.15
BilbaoYokohama
Score3853
Museums within 10 km2557
Museums within 2 km of centre1231
Share of museums within 2 km %4854
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
BilbaoYokohama
Score5874
Drinking venues within 4 km8692,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7301,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8464
Nightclubs within 4 km5033
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
BilbaoYokohama
Score5358
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7067
Park area within 2 km119 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 11 points.11
BilbaoYokohama
Score4758
Tourist attractions within 2 km1716
Park area within 2 km119 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Bilbao leads by 8 points.8
BilbaoYokohama
Score5244
Notable places within 2 km7949
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bilbao leads by 1 points.1
BilbaoYokohama
Score7170
Price level global60.862.4
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Bilbao leads by 7 points.7
BilbaoYokohama
Score7063
Monthly daytime high13.5 °C to 26.3 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 170 mm46 mm to 219 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bilbao
13
13
13
13
15
18
21
22
20
18
16
14
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bilbao
131
108
98
96
76
58
54
53
75
112
170
124
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Bilbao
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bilbao
3
3
5
5
6
6
6
6
5
4
3
3
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bilbao: 1991-2020 normals, Bilbao / Sondica (4.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBilbaoYokohama
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€62-91
BIO · 5 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€102
BIO · 5 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 5 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 5 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€79-101
BIO · 5 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 5 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 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

MeasureBilbaoYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation19 m24 m
Main airportBilbao Airport (BIO)5 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBilbaoYokohama
City population351,1243,757,630
People per km²8,4408,585
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5466
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 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.