Means of transport Bilbao

This is Bilbao's urban public transport bus service. About 30 lines run during the day throughout the city, generally from 6am to 11pm (this timetable varies according to the lines). You will easily recognise these red buses, whose name comes from the toponym Bilbo (Bilbao in Basque). The Gautxori service also offers eight night bus lines, which start from Plaza Biribila, in the Abando district.

Built in 2002, the Bilbao tramway is an ecological and very pleasant means of transport. From Atxuri station, it joins La Casilla station along a pleasant route along the river, passing through Ribera, Arriaga, Abando, Pío Baroja, Uribitarte, Guggenheim, Abandoibarra, Euskalduna, Sabino Arana and San Mamés stations. During a stay in Bilbao, it is better to use this option to get around the city, which is much more convenient than the metro!

This is the regional bus network of the province of Vizcaya, which consists of about 100 routes. These buses serve practically all the coastal and inland municipalities from Bilbao, including routes to Bermeo, Ondarroa, Durango and Balmaseda. The buses leave from the Bilbao Intermodal bus terminal (formerly called Termibus), located next to the San Mamés train station. Bizkaibus also serves Bilbao airport with the A3247 line, which runs approximately every 20 minutes.

This is Bilbao's new bus station, inaugurated in 2019 in the basement of the San Mamés multimodal interchange. Several companies connect Bilbao with the main Spanish cities and the surrounding municipalities: Alsa for connections to Hendaye, Burgos, Santander, etc.; La Unión buses to Vitoria and Pamplona; Pesa to San Sebastian and Biarritz; Bizkaibus for connections to all the municipalities of Bizkaia and Bilbao airport.

The Euskotren regional trains, managed by the Basque Government, provide intercity connections in the Basque Country. The Bilbao-Bermeo line (E4) provides connections to Guernica and the Urdaibai reserve, among others. The Lasarte/Oria-Hendaia line (E2) - better known as the Topo - provides connections between San Sebastián and Hendaia in around 40 minutes. The Bilbao-San Sebastián line (E1) is useful for getting around the coastal municipalities (Zarautz, Zumaia, etc.), although the journey between the two cities is very long (more than 2.5 hours and 30 minutes).