Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.
Bath or Madrid?
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 Madrid for
- nightlife
- food and drink
- live music and the arts
What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Madrid.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.
Wins on nightlife 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
Madrid in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Bath | Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | English | Spanish |
| Currency | Pound Sterling (GBP) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | G230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Right |
| Time zone | UTC, UTC+1 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 or 999 | 112 |
| Elevation | 132 m | 663 m |
| Main airport | Bristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinations | Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 8 days | 12 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Bath | Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 94,092 | 3,506,730 |
| People per km² | 3,245 | 5,801 |
| Museums within 10 km | 17 | 88 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 4 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | - |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bath or Madrid somewhere new.