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Bath or San Jose?

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, 1 point apart

Bath
40
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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 Jose
Beaches & swimming. Bath and San Jose are level on 8.
BathSan Jose
Score88
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance29 km14 km
Water distance29 km14 km
Places to eat. Bath leads by 5 points.5
BathSan Jose
Score4641
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 21 points.21
BathSan Jose
Score4726
Museums within 10 km2020
Museums within 2 km of centre149
Share of museums within 2 km %7045
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bath leads by 5 points.5
BathSan Jose
Score3631
Drinking venues within 4 km320231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre24088
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7538
Nightclubs within 4 km1116
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 26 points.26
BathSan Jose
Score4470
Protected land share 50 km %2826
Landscape blanket share 50 km %272
Land share of disc %9291
Park area within 2 km45 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 7 points.7
BathSan Jose
Score4033
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km45 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 18 points.18
BathSan Jose
Score3214
Notable places within 2 km259
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathSan Jose
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 30 points.30
BathSan Jose
Score5585
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months08
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathSan Jose
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
9 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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 Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSan Jose
City population94,0921,013,240
People per km²3,2452,167
Museums within 10 km1719
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3830
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.