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Baden-Baden or Bath?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
Bath

Photo: Lucas Carlini, Pexels License

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Baden-Baden
50
match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Bath
51
match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenBath
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 2 points.2
Food & drink. Baden-Baden leads by 1 points.1
Culture & sights. Bath leads by 16 points.16
Nightlife. Bath leads by 15 points.15
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden leads by 12 points.12
Day trips. Bath leads by 2 points.2
Good for families. Baden-Baden and Bath are level on 50.
Getting around. Bath leads by 10 points.10
Shopping & style. Bath leads by 16 points.16
Affordability. Baden-Baden leads by 3 points.3
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden leads by 14 points.14
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 18 points.18
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Bath.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenBath
Daytime high25 °C21 °C
Night-time low14 °C12 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm61 mm
Sunshine8 hours a day7 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea18 °C
Daylight16 hours a day16 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Baden-Baden
No coastline within reach
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Where the figures come from

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenBath
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
ToulouseTLS
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 51 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 15 m
€136-156
FKB · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 20 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 140 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 72 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBaden-BadenBath
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation181 m132 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenBath
City population56,95294,092
People per km²4063,245
Museums within 10 km1117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.