VacationSelector

Bath or Copenhagen?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BathCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 46 points.46
BathCopenhagen
Score854
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 27 points.27
BathCopenhagen
Score4673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 28 points.28
BathCopenhagen
Score4775
Museums within 10 km2083
Museums within 2 km of centre1451
Share of museums within 2 km %7061
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
BathCopenhagen
Score3667
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7558
Nightclubs within 4 km1164
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 6 points.6
BathCopenhagen
Score4450
Protected land share 50 km %285
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9239
Park area within 2 km45 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
BathCopenhagen
Score4071
Tourist attractions within 2 km1454
Park area within 2 km45 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 42 points.42
BathCopenhagen
Score3274
Notable places within 2 km25273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathCopenhagen
Score5452
Price level global84.987.8
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Bath and Copenhagen are level on 55.
BathCopenhagen
Score5555
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm28 mm to 74 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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Copenhagen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathCopenhagen
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€144-151
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 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

MeasureBathCopenhagen
Official languageEnglishDanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m14 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathCopenhagen
City population94,092667,099
People per km²3,2457,339
Museums within 10 km1772
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3882
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.