VacationSelector

Bath or Melbourne?

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

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BathMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 47 points.47
BathMelbourne
Score855
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km119
Coast distance29 km4 km
Water distance29 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 29 points.29
BathMelbourne
Score4675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
BathMelbourne
Score4749
Museums within 10 km2042
Museums within 2 km of centre1424
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 38 points.38
BathMelbourne
Score3674
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2401,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km11124
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 1 points.1
BathMelbourne
Score4443
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9281
Park area within 2 km45 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 20 points.20
BathMelbourne
Score4060
Tourist attractions within 2 km1426
Park area within 2 km45 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 25 points.25
BathMelbourne
Score3257
Notable places within 2 km25103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 4 points.4
BathMelbourne
Score5450
Price level global84.990.2
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 21 points.21
BathMelbourne
Score5576
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathMelbourne
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
SydneySYD, WSI
20 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 30 m
€119-126
MEL · 19 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
12 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
13 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 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

MeasureBathMelbourne
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999000
Elevation132 m31 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMelbourne
City population94,0925,350,705
People per km²3,245535
Museums within 10 km1742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3886
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.