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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

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

Bath or Buenos Aires?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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, Buenos Aires 7: Bath leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Buenos Aires 71: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Buenos Aires 38: Bath leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Buenos Aires 60: Bath leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Buenos Aires 52: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Buenos Aires 62: Bath leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Buenos Aires 55: Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 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). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathBuenos Aires
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999117 or 911
Elevation132 m25 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathBuenos Aires
City population94,0923,121,707
People per km²3,24515,355
Museums within 10 km1776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.