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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License.

Bath or Honolulu?

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

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Honolulu’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, Honolulu 91: Honolulu leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Honolulu 70: Honolulu leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Honolulu 55: Bath leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Honolulu 45: Honolulu leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Honolulu 88: Honolulu leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Honolulu 38: Bath leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Honolulu 80: Honolulu leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Honolulu 52: Bath leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Honolulu 60: Honolulu leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Honolulu 15: Bath leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Honolulu 40: Bath leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Honolulu 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 Honolulu.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 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). Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathHonolulu
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-10
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m12 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathHonolulu
City population94,092350,964
People per km²3,2451,981
Museums within 10 km1712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.