VacationSelector

Bath or Madrid?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

BathMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathMadrid
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance29 km305 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
BathMadrid
Score4683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2453,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2628
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
BathMadrid
Score4775
Museums within 10 km2097
Museums within 2 km of centre1459
Share of museums within 2 km %7061
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 45 points.45
BathMadrid
Score3681
Drinking venues within 4 km3202,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2401,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km11341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
BathMadrid
Score4463
Protected land share 50 km %2819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
BathMadrid
Score4077
Tourist attractions within 2 km1461
Park area within 2 km45 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 43 points.43
BathMadrid
Score3275
Notable places within 2 km25288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
BathMadrid
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
BathMadrid
Score5572
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months07
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathMadrid
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€77-197
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 14 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

MeasureBathMadrid
Official languageEnglishSpanish
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 m663 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMadrid
City population94,0923,506,730
People per km²3,2455,801
Museums within 10 km1788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre38106
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.