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Derio

Derio is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Derio
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The place

Derio is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. It is part of Greater Bilbao and was part of the municipality of Bilbao until 1983 and hosts Bilbao's biggest municipal cemetery. It has a population of 5,107 (2006). There is a Derio railway station and CD Derio football club.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Derio

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mount Artxanda

    Mount Artxanda is one of the two small mountain ranges that delimit the municipality of Bilbao, the other one being Pagasarri. Of the two, it is the lower one, the closer one to the center of the city, and the one that has suffered from more intense urbanization.

    3.4 km · mountain in Spain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bilbao British Cemetery

    Bilbao British Cemetery is located in Sondika, in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. The British cemetery was originally located on the coast of Biscay from about 1775, before being disaffected and relocated to its current position in 1929.

    2.6 km · cemetery in Sondika, Biscay · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Derio

Airports
Bilbao (BIO), 2 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 236 km · Bordeaux–Mérignac (BOD), 243 km
Stations
Bilbao Airport, 2.3 km · Uribarri station, 3.9 km · Zurbaranbarri, 3.8 km · Txurdinaga, 3.9 km · Estación de Otxarkoaga, 3.9 km
  • Zaragoza → Derio
    246 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · €32–45
  • Ranón → Derio
    258 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · €32–44
  • Madrid → Derio
    328 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · €90–140
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Derio

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Derio. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inwikipedia:Renfe_Feve wikipedia:Renfe_Feve Brittany Ferries run a direct car ferry between Bilbao and Portsmouth, England.
  • Get inIt is best to book early, since the ferry is often booked out in summer.
  • Get inFerries land at Zierbena, at about 15 km from the centre of Bilbao.
  • Get aroundYou can use the tram, bus or funicular to move around Bilbao.

From Wikivoyage: Bilbao, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    831 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    887 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    893 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    926 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,016 km

If you know how people move in Derio – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Derio

Derio is 5 km from Bilbao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.