VacationSelector

Bath or Berlin?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BathBerlin
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathBerlin
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance29 km142 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BathBerlin
Score4670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 32 points.32
BathBerlin
Score4779
Museums within 10 km20200
Museums within 2 km of centre1481
Share of museums within 2 km %7041
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 40 points.40
BathBerlin
Score3676
Drinking venues within 4 km3202,114
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240719
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7534
Nightclubs within 4 km11135
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 5 points.5
BathBerlin
Score4449
Protected land share 50 km %2820
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2716
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares141 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 36 points.36
BathBerlin
Score4076
Tourist attractions within 2 km1454
Park area within 2 km45 hectares141 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 52 points.52
BathBerlin
Score3284
Notable places within 2 km25486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BathBerlin
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 5 points.5
BathBerlin
Score5560
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C3.7 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm29 mm to 76 mm
Dry months03
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathBerlin
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€145-185
BER · 19 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 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

MeasureBathBerlin
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m34 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBerlin
City population94,0923,782,202
People per km²3,2454,244
Museums within 10 km17158
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3886
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.