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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bath or Maastricht?

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
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Maastricht for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Maastricht’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, Maastricht 8: Bath leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Maastricht 58: Maastricht leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Maastricht 60: Bath leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Maastricht 42: Maastricht leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath and Maastricht are level on 58.
Day trips. Bath 80, Maastricht 77: Bath leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Maastricht 55: Maastricht leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Maastricht 74: Maastricht leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Maastricht 38: Maastricht leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Maastricht 40: Bath leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Maastricht 52: Bath leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Maastricht.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bath
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Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Maastricht
52match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathMaastricht
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m49 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMaastricht
City population94,092120,227
People per km²3,2452,000
Museums within 10 km1721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.

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.