VacationSelector

Bath or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BathFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 76 points.76
BathFort Lauderdale
Score884
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 1 points.1
BathFort Lauderdale
Score4645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 27 points.27
BathFort Lauderdale
Score4720
Museums within 10 km2014
Museums within 2 km of centre146
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathFort Lauderdale
Score3634
Drinking venues within 4 km320259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7556
Nightclubs within 4 km1118
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 37 points.37
BathFort Lauderdale
Score4481
Protected land share 50 km %2820
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9251
Park area within 2 km45 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 21 points.21
BathFort Lauderdale
Score4019
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km45 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 32 points.32
BathFort Lauderdale
Score320
Notable places within 2 km252
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathFort Lauderdale
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.21
BathFort Lauderdale
Score5576
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Fort Lauderdale
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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBathFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 35 m
€125-184
FLL · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
NassauNAS
8 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBathFort Lauderdale
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m11 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathFort Lauderdale
City population94,092182,760
People per km²3,2451,829
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3825
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.