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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bath or Salt Lake City?

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

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Salt Lake City 40: Bath leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Salt Lake City 42: Bath leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Bath and Salt Lake City are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Salt Lake City 34: Bath leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Salt Lake City 42: Bath leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Salt Lake City 36: Bath leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Salt Lake City 38: Bath leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathSalt Lake City
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m1,288 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSalt Lake City
City population94,092199,723
People per km²3,245690
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.