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Skiers at the Albion base of the ski area, Alta, Utah
Alta, UtahSkiers at the Albion base of the ski area
Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License.

Alta, Utah or Bath?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Alta, Utah for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Alta, Utah’s own page.

Choose Bath for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Bath’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Alta, Utah 3, Bath 10: Bath leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Bath 44: Bath leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Bath 68: Bath leads by 63 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Bath 30: Bath leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Bath 58: Alta, Utah leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Bath 80: Bath leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Bath 50: Bath leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Bath 72: Bath leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Bath 54: Bath leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Bath 27: Bath leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Bath 44: Bath leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Bath 78: Bath leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Bath.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Alta, Utah
23match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alta, Utah in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Alta, Utah has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alta, Utah: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahBath
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2,610 m132 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahBath
City population22894,092
People per km²193,245
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.