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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bath or Lima?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Lima 88: Lima leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Lima 66: Bath leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Lima 62: Lima leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Lima 45: Bath leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Lima 34: Bath leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Lima 42: Bath leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Lima 35: Bath leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Lima 52: Bath leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Lima 70: Lima leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Lima 53: Lima leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Lima 25: Bath leads by 53 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Lima.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bath
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Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Lima
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Wins on food and drink and prices 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathLima
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999111 or 911
Elevation132 m154 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathLima
City population94,0929,943,800
People per km²3,2453,721
Museums within 10 km1747
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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.