VacationSelector

Bath or Budapest?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

BathBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathBudapest
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance29 km10,000 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 31 points.31
BathBudapest
Score4677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 17 points.17
BathBudapest
Score4764
Museums within 10 km20144
Museums within 2 km of centre1464
Share of museums within 2 km %7044
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BathBudapest
Score3672
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2401,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7566
Nightclubs within 4 km1197
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 4 points.4
BathBudapest
Score4440
Protected land share 50 km %288
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 31 points.31
BathBudapest
Score4071
Tourist attractions within 2 km1475
Park area within 2 km45 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 37 points.37
BathBudapest
Score3269
Notable places within 2 km25206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BathBudapest
Score5480
Price level global84.948
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BathBudapest
Score5564
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm27 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathBudapest
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€151-177
BUD · 18 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 148 km
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathBudapest
Official languageEnglishHungarian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Forint (HUF)
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 m117 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBudapest
City population94,0921,685,209
People per km²3,2453,209
Museums within 10 km1781
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.