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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0.

Bath or Boca Raton?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bath for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Bath’s own page.

Choose Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bath 10, Boca Raton 82: Boca Raton leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Bath and Boca Raton are level on 44.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Boca Raton 28: Bath leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Boca Raton 32: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Boca Raton 50: Bath leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Boca Raton 60: Bath leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Boca Raton 62: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Boca Raton 18: Bath leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Bath and Boca Raton are level on 54.
Affordability. Bath 27, Boca Raton 22: Bath leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Boca Raton 33: Bath leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Boca Raton 42: Bath leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Boca Raton.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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

Bath has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Boca Raton has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathBoca Raton
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m4 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBoca Raton
City population94,09297,422
People per km²3,2451,203
Museums within 10 km175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.