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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bath or Bogota?

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

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Bogota for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’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, Bogota 5: Bath leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Bogota 66: Bogota leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bath and Bogota are level on 68.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Bogota 72: Bogota leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Bogota 64: Bogota leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Bogota 52: Bath leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Bogota 45: Bath leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Bogota 36: Bath leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Bogota 52: Bath leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Bogota 77: Bogota leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Bogota 64: Bogota leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Bogota 28: Bath leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Bogota.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bath
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Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Bogota
52match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathBogota
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999123
Elevation132 m2,582 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days19 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBogota
City population94,0928,034,649
People per km²3,2455,092
Museums within 10 km1730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.