Quality of life in Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain, features a very safe living environment. According to our city rankings, this is a good place to live with high ratings in housing, business freedom and healthcare.
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Bilbao, Spain, features a very safe living environment. According to our city rankings, this is a good place to live with high ratings in housing, business freedom and healthcare.
Large apartment | $1300.00 |
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Medium apartment | $1100.00 |
Rent index [score] | 0.71 |
Small apartment | $840.00 |
5km taxi ride | $8.40 |
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A Cappuccino | $1.90 |
A beer | $1.10 |
A kilogram of Apples | $2.10 |
Bread | $0.61 |
Inflation [score] | 0.56 |
Lunch | $15.00 |
Monthly fitness club membership | $56.00 |
Monthly public transport | $51.00 |
Movie ticket | $10.00 |
Price of a meal at a restaurant | $71.21 |
Average monthly increase in number of startups | 1 |
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Average monthly increase in number of startups [score] | 0.20 |
Coworking spaces [score] | 0.10 |
Coworking spaces on WorkFrom.co | 5 |
Meetups [score] | 0.18 |
Meetups groups | 35 |
Meetups members | 7209 |
Number of startup events in the last 12 months | 27 |
Number of upcoming meetup events | 4 |
Startup climate scene [score] | 0.32 |
Startup events | 8 |
Startup events [score] | 0.31 |
Startups [score] | 0.33 |
Total number of startups | 35 |
Airport hub | 42 |
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Airport hub [score] | 0.25 |
Intercity train connectivity [score] | 0.59 |
Traffic handling [score] | 0.77 |
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Business freedom | 76.00 |
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Business freedom [score] | 0.68 |
Freedom from corruption | 60.00 |
Freedom from corruption [score] | 0.59 |
Lack of labor restrictions | 51.70 |
Lack of labor restrictions [score] | 0.30 |
Time to open a business | 13.00 |
Time to open a business [score] | 0.86 |
Crime rate [score] | 0.81 |
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Gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents per year | 1 |
Guns per 100 residents | 10 |
Lack of gun related deaths [score] | 0.98 |
Lack of guns [score] | 0.95 |
Lack of guns and gun-related deaths [score] | 0.97 |
Healthcare expenditure [score] | 0.75 |
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Healthcare quality [score] | 0.98 |
Life expectancy (years) | 82.83 |
Life expectancy [score] | 0.97 |
Country mean scores in PISA math test | 490.84 |
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Country mean scores in PISA reading test | 487.94 |
Country mean scores in PISA science test | 496.45 |
PISA math ranking (high school) | 24 |
PISA ranking | 22 |
PISA ranking (high school) [score] | 0.75 |
PISA reading (high school) | 17 |
PISA science (high school) | 21 |
Percent of happy students | 0.85 |
Percent of low performers in PISA math test | 0.24 |
Percent of low performers in PISA reading test | 0.18 |
Percent of low performers in PISA science test | 0.16 |
Percent of top performers in PISA math test | 0.08 |
Percent of top performers in PISA reading test | 0.06 |
Percent of top performers in PISA science test | 0.05 |
Air quality [score] | 0.78 |
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Cleanliness [score] | 0.84 |
Drinking water quality [score] | 0.90 |
Urban greenery [score] | 0.81 |
Currency exchange rate per US dollar for urban area | 0.85 |
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Currency for urban area | EUR |
GDP growth rate | 0.01 |
GDP growth rate [score] | 0.31 |
GDP per capita | $33711.41 |
GDP per capita [score] | 0.54 |
Effective company profit tax rate on payouts as dividends [score] | 0.45 |
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Income tax level [score] | 0.33 |
Profit tax (% of profit) | 0.49 |
Time overhead to file company taxes | 152 |
Download speed (Mbps) | 34.31 |
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Internet access (download) [score] | 0.51 |
Internet access (upload) [score] | 0.64 |
Upload speed (Mbps) | 17.60 |
Art galleries | 43 |
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Art galleries [score] | 0.47 |
Cinemas | 7 |
Cinemas [score] | 0.12 |
Comedy clubs | 1 |
Comedy clubs [score] | 0.14 |
Concert venues | 52 |
Concerts [score] | 0.35 |
Historical sites | 28 |
Historical sites [score] | 0.56 |
Museums | 20 |
Museums [score] | 0.65 |
Performing art venues | 34 |
Performing arts [score] | 0.47 |
Sport venues | 17 |
Sports [score] | 0.54 |
Zoos [score] | 0.10 |
Homosexuality acceptance (percent of the surveyed population in favor) | 0.88 |
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LGBT Equality Index | 91.99 |
LGBT Equality Index [score] | 0.94 |
LGBT adoption rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT age of consent | ✔ Equal |
LGBT blood donation regulations | ✔ Legal |
LGBT conversion therapy regulations | ✖ Not banned |
LGBT discrimination legality | ✔ Illegal |
LGBT employment discrimination legality | Sexual orientation only |
LGBT gender changing rights | ✔ Legal, surgery not required |
LGBT homosexuality rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT housing discrimination legality | ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity |
LGBT marriage rights | ✔ Legal |
Tolerance towards minorities [score] | 0.79 |
Elevation (hills or mountains) [score] | 0.20 |
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Median peak in meters | 398.00 |
Presence of hills in city | 1.00 |
Presence of mountains in city | 1.00 |
Seaside access | 1.00 |
Urban area elevation (meters) | 25.00 |
Water access [score] | 0.10 |
Costs of living in Bilbao are in the 133rd place of all 248 Teleport cities and the most expensive in Spain. Sign up for free to get access to our cost of living index and use our international cost of living calculator to do cost comparison by city.
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Software Engineer salaries in Bilbao are below average. For this job type, Bilbao ranks 159th for salaries among 265 cities. Get access to our salary comparison calculator by signing up. Compare salaries city by city with our free salary wizard and convert your own salary to a local salary in Bilbao.
The overall crime rate puts Bilbao in position 51 of 266 Teleport Cities in a ranking for the safest cities.
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Situated on the banks of the Nervión, Bilbao is the largest city in Spain's Basque Country. Milder and rainier than most other parts of Spain (temperatures here rarely fall below freezing in winter nor rise much above 25°C even in the height of summer), the greenery of Bilbao is both a blessing and a curse: the climate here is as much a welcome relief from the heat of the dry plains in the south as a thorn in the side of those hoping for a day at the beach. But the shore of the Bay of Biscay isn't really the main attraction—instead, Bilbao is perhaps the best place in the world to experience the ancient culture and language of the Basque people, which has stubbornly held its own over thousands of years and is now completely unlike any modern-day culture in Europe.
All buses to other provinces leave from the TermiBus terminal. There are regular connections to Santander (75 minutes) San Sebastian (60 minutes) and Madrid (arriving at Avenida de América bus station, 4–5 hours) among others.
The bus companies connect Bilbao with many cities in Spain more cheaply and frequently than the rail companies.
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