VacationSelector

Bath or Philadelphia?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

BathPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathPhiladelphia
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance29 km13 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 31 points.31
BathPhiladelphia
Score4677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
BathPhiladelphia
Score4760
Museums within 10 km2089
Museums within 2 km of centre1448
Share of museums within 2 km %7054
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
BathPhiladelphia
Score3659
Drinking venues within 4 km320930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km1141
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
BathPhiladelphia
Score4449
Protected land share 50 km %2814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9289
Park area within 2 km45 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
BathPhiladelphia
Score4053
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km45 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
BathPhiladelphia
Score3254
Notable places within 2 km2588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathPhiladelphia
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
BathPhiladelphia
Score5560
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathPhiladelphia
HoustonIAH, HOU
9 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BridgetownBGI
8 h 25 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureBathPhiladelphia
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m12 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathPhiladelphia
City population94,0921,603,797
People per km²3,2454,339
Museums within 10 km1754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3875
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.