VacationSelector

Bath or Faro?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 53 points.53
BathFaro
Score861
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathFaro
Score4644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 25 points.25
BathFaro
Score4722
Museums within 10 km209
Museums within 2 km of centre148
Share of museums within 2 km %7089
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bath leads by 15 points.15
BathFaro
Score3621
Drinking venues within 4 km320143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7586
Nightclubs within 4 km118
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 13 points.13
BathFaro
Score4457
Protected land share 50 km %2811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9242
Park area within 2 km45 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 4 points.4
BathFaro
Score4036
Tourist attractions within 2 km1410
Park area within 2 km45 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 10 points.10
BathFaro
Score3222
Notable places within 2 km2514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
BathFaro
Score5474
Price level global84.955.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 28 points.28
BathFaro
Score5583
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathFaro
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€116-130
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBathFaro
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m10 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathFaro
City population94,09264,560
People per km²3,245319
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3834
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.