VacationSelector

Bath or Heidelberg?

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 nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BathHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathHeidelberg
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance29 km406 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 1 points.1
BathHeidelberg
Score4647
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 12 points.12
BathHeidelberg
Score4759
Museums within 10 km2054
Museums within 2 km of centre1423
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathHeidelberg
Score3627
Drinking venues within 4 km320201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7584
Nightclubs within 4 km118
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 30 points.30
BathHeidelberg
Score4474
Protected land share 50 km %2852
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2722
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 3 points.3
BathHeidelberg
Score4043
Tourist attractions within 2 km1429
Park area within 2 km45 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 4 points.4
BathHeidelberg
Score3236
Notable places within 2 km2531
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 6 points.6
BathHeidelberg
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 6 points.6
BathHeidelberg
Score5561
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathHeidelberg
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€264-346
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathHeidelberg
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 m114 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathHeidelberg
City population94,092162,960
People per km²3,2451,496
Museums within 10 km1717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3845
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. 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.