Bilbao in February
Around 10 °C by day, sea 12.8 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 1 out of 5 against 4.
February in Bilbao is 10 °C by day and 12.8 °C in the water. Load is 1 out of 5, a month for errands rather than the beach.
Spend February on the estuary. The metro runs from the centre to the sea, past Portugalete and Getxo, and between them hangs an iron bridge from 1893 that still ferries people and cars in a suspended gondola. The beaches start there. For anyone moving that means something simple: live in the city, reach the sea in half an hour, and do it without a car.
Towns nearby in February
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbao | 10 | 12.8 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 3 524appraised |
| Getxo | 10 | 12.8 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 4 125appraised |
| San Sebastián / Donostia | 10 | 12.5 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 5 186appraised |
| Zarautz | 10 | 12.6 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 6 994asking |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 140 rainy days a year, 77% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.