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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The Elbphilharmonie from the water, Hamburg
HamburgThe Elbphilharmonie from the water

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Hamburg by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Bath or Hamburg?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hamburg for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Hamburg’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, Hamburg 28: Hamburg leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Hamburg 55: Hamburg leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Hamburg 62: Bath leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Hamburg 76: Hamburg leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Hamburg 52: Bath leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Hamburg 70: Bath leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Hamburg 74: Hamburg leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Hamburg 65: Hamburg leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Hamburg 38: Hamburg leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Hamburg 44: Bath leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Hamburg.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Hamburg
Best match
60match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Hamburg in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathHamburg
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m6 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathHamburg
City population94,0921,869,473
People per km²3,2452,476
Museums within 10 km1777
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.