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Bilbao weather

Basque Country · 347,342 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:42

Partly cloudy
16°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 16°C
Wind
1 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
75 %
Pressure
1022 hPa
Clouds
55 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:43 Set 18:08 Day 10 h 24 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 75 %
19:00
Partly cloudy
16°
N 1
22:00
Mainly clear
16°
WSW 3

Bilbao forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
5°9°12°16°19°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed16°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 17° · min 8° · normal 13.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 13° · normal 13.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 16° · min 13° · normal 13.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 15° · min 12° · normal 13.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 14° · min 12° · normal 13.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 13° · min 9° · normal 13.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 16° · min 7° · normal 13.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu6°13°19°17°7°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bilbao climate: what a normal year looks like

From 15 h 24 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 57 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 5 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 64 mm and 139 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan11 °C6 °C117 mm
Feb12 °C6 °C106 mm
Mar13 °C7 °C104 mm
Apr14 °C9 °C104 mm
May17 °C11 °C93 mm
Jun20 °C14 °C78 mm
Jul22 °C16 °C69 mm
Aug23 °C17 °C64 mm
Sep21 °C14 °C73 mm
Oct18 °C12 °C102 mm
Nov13 °C9 °C139 mm
Dec11 °C6 °C110 mm
Whole year16 °C11 °C1,160 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 43.36° N, 3.05° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Bilbao: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.510µg/m³
PM1017µg/m³
O₃39µg/m³
NO₂24µg/m³
SO₂3µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortLow
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bilbao

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bilbao, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Bilbao

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:04 Set 22:57
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Madrid); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bilbao

Curious about the weather in Bilbao on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Bilbao weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bilbao, Basque Country: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 1 km/h.

Expected range today: 8 °C to 17 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations