VacationSelector

Athens or Bath?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Bath
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AthensBath
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 40 points.40
AthensBath
Score488
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km141
Coast distance6 km29 km
Water distance6 km29 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 23 points.23
AthensBath
Score6946
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431245
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2526
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 26 points.26
AthensBath
Score7347
Museums within 10 km12220
Museums within 2 km of centre7814
Share of museums within 2 km %6470
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 45 points.45
AthensBath
Score8136
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718320
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354240
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5075
Nightclubs within 4 km13611
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 1 points.1
AthensBath
Score4544
Protected land share 50 km %528
Landscape blanket share 50 km %027
Land share of disc %5092
Park area within 2 km128 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensBath
Score7140
Tourist attractions within 2 km6814
Park area within 2 km128 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 43 points.43
AthensBath
Score7532
Notable places within 2 km29125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensBath
Score7454
Price level global55.884.9
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensBath
Score7455
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C6.8 °C to 21.4 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm49 mm to 87 mm
Dry months70
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensBath
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 25 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 0 m
€84-111
ATH · 20 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
LarnacaLCA
1 h 45 m
€63-80
ATH · 20 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
RhodesRHO
1 h 10 m
€87-123
ATH · 20 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
ThiraJTR
55 m
€94-103
ATH · 20 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€71-91
ATH · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 148 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
New DelhiDEL
6 h 30 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 126 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

MeasureAthensBath
Official languageGreekEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation74 m132 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensBath
City population643,45294,092
People per km²16,4993,245
Museums within 10 km8817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre8238
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.