VacationSelector

Bath or Lucerne?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

BathLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathLucerne
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km116
Coast distance29 km669 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 1 points.1
BathLucerne
Score4647
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 7 points.7
BathLucerne
Score4740
Museums within 10 km2023
Museums within 2 km of centre1413
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathLucerne
Score3628
Drinking venues within 4 km320202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km1111
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 19 points.19
BathLucerne
Score4425
Protected land share 50 km %287
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathLucerne
Score4038
Tourist attractions within 2 km1415
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 3 points.3
BathLucerne
Score3235
Notable places within 2 km2529
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 19 points.19
BathLucerne
Score5435
Price level global84.9110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathLucerne
Score5553
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBathLucerne
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 49 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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 · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureBathLucerne
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 m436 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathLucerne
City population94,09286,234
People per km²3,2452,963
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3846
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.