VacationSelector

Bath or Beijing?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

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

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BathBeijing
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathBeijing
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance29 km145 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 16 points.16
BathBeijing
Score4763
Museums within 10 km2095
Museums within 2 km of centre1415
Share of museums within 2 km %7016
Unesco sites within 50 km26
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathBeijing
Score4435
Protected land share 50 km %283
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares143 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 37 points.37
BathBeijing
Score4077
Tourist attractions within 2 km1441
Park area within 2 km45 hectares143 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km112
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 18 points.18
BathBeijing
Score3250
Notable places within 2 km2569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 25 points.25
BathBeijing
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 11 points.11
BathBeijing
Score5566
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C2.2 °C to 31.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm3 mm to 163 mm
Dry months08
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBathBeijing
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
10 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€217-253
PKX · 45 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 55 m
€151-190
PKX · 45 km
ChongqingCKG, CQW
10 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
ChangshaCSX
11 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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

MeasureBathBeijing
Official languageEnglishPutonghua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation132 m43 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBeijing
City population94,09221,893,095
People per km²3,2451,334
Museums within 10 km1783
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre3829
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.