VacationSelector

Bath or Helsinki?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BathHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 52 points.52
BathHelsinki
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1157
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 25 points.25
BathHelsinki
Score4671
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2638
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 2 points.2
BathHelsinki
Score4749
Museums within 10 km2057
Museums within 2 km of centre1423
Share of museums within 2 km %7040
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 20 points.20
BathHelsinki
Score3656
Drinking venues within 4 km320807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km1140
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathHelsinki
Score4442
Protected land share 50 km %283
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9253
Park area within 2 km45 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 18 points.18
BathHelsinki
Score4058
Tourist attractions within 2 km1420
Park area within 2 km45 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 41 points.41
BathHelsinki
Score3273
Notable places within 2 km25257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Helsinki leads by 2 points.2
BathHelsinki
Score5456
Price level global84.981.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 7 points.7
BathHelsinki
Score5548
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months03
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathHelsinki
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€144-161
HEL · 16 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureBathHelsinki
Official languageEnglishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m17 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathHelsinki
City population94,092694,392
People per km²3,2453,239
Museums within 10 km1774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3878
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.