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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Nyhavn, Copenhagen
CopenhagenNyhavn

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Copenhagen by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bath or Copenhagen?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Copenhagen for

  • families
  • food and drink
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Copenhagen’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, Copenhagen 40: Copenhagen leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Copenhagen 76: Copenhagen leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Copenhagen 72: Copenhagen leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Copenhagen 60: Copenhagen leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Copenhagen 45: Bath leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Copenhagen 72: Bath leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Copenhagen 85: Copenhagen leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Copenhagen 85: Copenhagen leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Copenhagen 70: Copenhagen leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Copenhagen 18: Bath leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Copenhagen 68: Copenhagen leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Copenhagen 55: Bath leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Copenhagen.

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.

Copenhagen
Best match
62match

Wins on families 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

Copenhagen in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 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). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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 centre117 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre196 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.

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.