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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bath or Nashville?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Nashville 50: Bath leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Nashville 46: Bath leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Nashville 52: Bath leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Nashville 30: Bath leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Nashville 42: Bath leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Nashville 20: Bath leads by 58 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Nashville.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathNashville
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m182 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathNashville
City population94,092689,447
People per km²3,245506
Museums within 10 km1712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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.