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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Bath or Hiroshima?

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
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Hiroshima 60: Bath leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bath and Hiroshima are level on 80.
Good for families. Bath 50, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Hiroshima 52: Bath leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Hiroshima 38: Bath leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Hiroshima 50: Bath leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathHiroshima
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation132 m3 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathHiroshima
City population94,0921,198,021
People per km²3,2451,324
Museums within 10 km1718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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