VacationSelector

Antwerp or Bath?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Bath
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Antwerp if you want the city itself to be the trip: far more restaurants near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, more museums and more to do after dark. It is the warmer of the two, reaching 23°C in July.

Choose Bath if you want countryside within easy reach and a quieter, smaller centre, with 28% of the surrounding land protected.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntwerpBath
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpBath
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance21 km29 km
Water distance—29 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 29 points.29
AntwerpBath
Score7546
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164245
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4226
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 22 points.22
AntwerpBath
Score6947
Museums within 10 km4120
Museums within 2 km of centre2714
Share of museums within 2 km %6670
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpBath
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km866320
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657240
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7675
Nightclubs within 4 km7311
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 10 points.10
AntwerpBath
Score3444
Protected land share 50 km %728
Landscape blanket share 50 km %027
Land share of disc %8092
Park area within 2 km53 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpBath
Score4640
Tourist attractions within 2 km1414
Park area within 2 km53 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 22 points.22
AntwerpBath
Score5432
Notable places within 2 km8825
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpBath
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpBath
Score5855
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C6.8 °C to 21.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm49 mm to 87 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

Where they differ

Antwerp has many times as many restaurants near the centre, and a much wider range of kitchens. It has about twice as many museums, with 9 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Bath's 2, and after dark the gap widens: about three times as many places to drink and many times as many nightclubs.

Bath's advantage lies outside the city: a far larger share of the surrounding land is protected, so countryside walking starts close to the door. Antwerp keeps somewhat more park space near its own centre.

Where they are alike

Weather is the closest call. Both open and close the year at 7°C, both peak in July, and neither has a month at 40mm of rain or less.

Neither is a swimming trip: each has one beach nearby and no month with the sea warm enough to tempt you in. For families they are close too, with much the same number of attractions near the centre, and Antwerp holding a small edge on theme parks.

Which traveller are you?

Anyone travelling to eat and drink should go to Antwerp: many times more restaurants near the centre, a far wider spread of kitchens, and roughly three times as many places to drink, most of them within walking distance.

Walkers, and anyone who wants to be out of town by mid-morning, are better served by Bath, where much more of the surrounding land is protected and days out lean on countryside rather than city sights.

For a family weekend Antwerp edges it: 3 theme parks within reach against Bath's 1, more park space near the centre, and about three times as many notable places within walking distance for wet days.

What the numbers don't tell you

There is a daily budget figure for Antwerp, around €180, and none at all for Bath, so the two cannot be compared on cost here. Read the value axis as built on something both cities do have, not as a price tag, and check accommodation yourself.

A beach nearby counts for little when neither city has a month with the sea at 21°C or more, so treat that as a walk by the water rather than swimming. And Antwerp's warmest months are also its wettest, 90mm in August, so a good month on paper still needs a raincoat.

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Antwerp is the warmer city through spring and early autumn: May reaches 19°C against Bath's 16°C, and October is drier, 71mm against 87mm. It is the better pick in the shoulder months if warmth is the priority.

Bath answers in high summer, when it is the drier of the two: 61mm in July against Antwerp's 80mm, at highs of 21°C rather than anything hotter. Winter suits neither city, wet at both ends of the year and 7°C in January.

Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpBath
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 36 km
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
BridgetownBGI
9 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpBath
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation7 m132 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBath
City population529,24794,092
People per km²2,5423,245
Museums within 10 km3817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8038
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.