VacationSelector

Bath or Geneva?

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 and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BathGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathGeneva
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km143
Coast distance29 km279 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
BathGeneva
Score4670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
BathGeneva
Score4752
Museums within 10 km2035
Museums within 2 km of centre1420
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
BathGeneva
Score3650
Drinking venues within 4 km320549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km1160
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 15 points.15
BathGeneva
Score4459
Protected land share 50 km %2827
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2721
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 25 points.25
BathGeneva
Score4065
Tourist attractions within 2 km1428
Park area within 2 km45 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
BathGeneva
Score3256
Notable places within 2 km2599
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 19 points.19
BathGeneva
Score5435
Price level global84.9110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
BathGeneva
Score5559
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathGeneva
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
PortoOPO
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€156-181
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureBathGeneva
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m403 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathGeneva
City population94,092209,061
People per km²3,24513,148
Museums within 10 km1735
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3880
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.