VacationSelector

Bath or Salzburg?

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 nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BathSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathSalzburg
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance29 km653 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 3 points.3
BathSalzburg
Score4649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2623
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 13 points.13
BathSalzburg
Score4760
Museums within 10 km2042
Museums within 2 km of centre1427
Share of museums within 2 km %7064
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Bath and Salzburg are level on 36.
BathSalzburg
Score3636
Drinking venues within 4 km320294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7582
Nightclubs within 4 km1116
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 17 points.17
BathSalzburg
Score4427
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 8 points.8
BathSalzburg
Score4048
Tourist attractions within 2 km1417
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 14 points.14
BathSalzburg
Score3246
Notable places within 2 km2554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
BathSalzburg
Score5459
Price level global84.976.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 1 points.1
BathSalzburg
Score5554
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathSalzburg
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathSalzburg
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m424 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSalzburg
City population94,092155,021
People per km²3,2452,360
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3850
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.