VacationSelector

Bath or Interlaken?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bath
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BathInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathInterlaken
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance29 km713 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 17 points.17
BathInterlaken
Score4629
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 24 points.24
BathInterlaken
Score4723
Museums within 10 km205
Museums within 2 km of centre142
Share of museums within 2 km %7040
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bath leads by 32 points.32
BathInterlaken
Score364
Drinking venues within 4 km32042
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre24038
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7590
Nightclubs within 4 km113
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 17 points.17
BathInterlaken
Score4427
Protected land share 50 km %2819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 26 points.26
BathInterlaken
Score4014
Tourist attractions within 2 km1411
Park area within 2 km45 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 10 points.10
BathInterlaken
Score3222
Notable places within 2 km2514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 19 points.19
BathInterlaken
Score5435
Price level global84.9110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 2 points.2
BathInterlaken
Score5557
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathInterlaken
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureBathInterlaken
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m571 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathInterlaken
City population94,0926,123
People per km²3,2451,424
Museums within 10 km173
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3822
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.