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Bath or Portland?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bath
40
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Portland
42
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.

BathPortland
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathPortland
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance29 km69 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 28 points.28
BathPortland
Score4674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2644
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 12 points.12
BathPortland
Score4735
Museums within 10 km2023
Museums within 2 km of centre1415
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Portland leads by 22 points.22
BathPortland
Score3658
Drinking venues within 4 km320942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7555
Nightclubs within 4 km1132
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathPortland
Score4435
Protected land share 50 km %2813
Landscape blanket share 50 km %273
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 6 points.6
BathPortland
Score4034
Tourist attractions within 2 km148
Park area within 2 km45 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Portland leads by 3 points.3
BathPortland
Score3235
Notable places within 2 km2529
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathPortland
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 10 points.10
BathPortland
Score5565
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm13 mm to 145 mm
Dry months03
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Portland
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
10 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
9 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
9 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Las VegasLAS
10 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 5 m
€173-370
PDX · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureBathPortland
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m152 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathPortland
City population94,092652,503
People per km²3,2451,736
Museums within 10 km1717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3882
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.