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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Bath or Salzburg?

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

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Salzburg 25: Bath leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Bath and Salzburg are level on 80.
Good for families. Bath 50, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Bath and Salzburg are level on 72.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Salzburg 48: Bath leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Salzburg 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 Salzburg.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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 centre117 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 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
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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.