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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bath or Los Angeles?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Los Angeles 66: Bath leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Los Angeles 60: Bath leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Los Angeles 25: Bath leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Los Angeles 24: Bath leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Los Angeles 60: Bath leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches 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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathLos Angeles
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m106 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathLos Angeles
City population94,0923,898,747
People per km²3,2452,994
Museums within 10 km1739
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.