VacationSelector

Bath or Mexico City?

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.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathMexico City
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance29 km247 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
BathMexico City
Score4666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2452,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
BathMexico City
Score4779
Museums within 10 km20138
Museums within 2 km of centre1465
Share of museums within 2 km %7047
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
BathMexico City
Score3678
Drinking venues within 4 km3202,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7543
Nightclubs within 4 km11198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
BathMexico City
Score4463
Protected land share 50 km %2830
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
BathMexico City
Score4050
Tourist attractions within 2 km1423
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
BathMexico City
Score3254
Notable places within 2 km2588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
BathMexico City
Score5476
Price level global84.954.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
BathMexico City
Score5590
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathMexico City
CancunCUN
9 h 55 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

MeasureBathMexico City
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m2,240 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMexico City
City population94,0929,209,944
People per km²3,2456,202
Museums within 10 km17108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre3850
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. 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.