Bilbao in October
Around 16.5 °C by day, sea 18.7 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 2 out of 5 against 4.
October in Bilbao is 16.5 °C by day and 18.7 °C in the water. Load is 2 out of 5: the summer is over and the city is back at work.
On 18 October 1997 the Guggenheim opened here, and that is the date people count the new Bilbao from. Before it the city was port and metal; after it, somewhere people come to look at. For anyone moving, other figures matter more: a winter score of 5 out of 5, living without a car 5 out of 5, a hospital 8 minutes away. This is a city, not a resort, and it works twelve months a year.
Towns nearby in October
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbao | 16.5 | 18.7 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 3 524appraised |
| Getxo | 16.5 | 18.7 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 4 125appraised |
| San Sebastián / Donostia | 16.5 | 18.8 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 5 186appraised |
| Zarautz | 16.5 | 18.8 | 2/5 | 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.