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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Bath or Nuevo Vallarta?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Bath leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Bath leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Bath leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Bath leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Bath leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Bath leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Bath leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Bath leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BathNuevo Vallarta

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.

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBathNuevo Vallarta
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 m3 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathNuevo Vallarta
City population94,0921,301
People per km²3,245-
Museums within 10 km170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.