VacationSelector

Bath or San Diego?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

BathSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 55 points.55
BathSan Diego
Score863
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
BathSan Diego
Score4663
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 3 points.3
BathSan Diego
Score4744
Museums within 10 km2059
Museums within 2 km of centre1430
Share of museums within 2 km %7051
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 14 points.14
BathSan Diego
Score3650
Drinking venues within 4 km320615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7566
Nightclubs within 4 km1131
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 11 points.11
BathSan Diego
Score4455
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9252
Park area within 2 km45 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 35 points.35
BathSan Diego
Score4075
Tourist attractions within 2 km1440
Park area within 2 km45 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. San Diego leads by 8 points.8
BathSan Diego
Score3240
Notable places within 2 km2540
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathSan Diego
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 33 points.33
BathSan Diego
Score5588
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathSan Diego
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 30 m
€121-158
SAN · 3 km
Las VegasLAS
10 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
DenverDEN, APA
9 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 15 m
€64-224
SAN · 3 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
10 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureBathSan Diego
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 m129 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSan Diego
City population94,0921,386,932
People per km²3,2451,438
Museums within 10 km1726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3844
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.