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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bath or San Miguel de Allende?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Bath leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, San Miguel de Allende 62: Bath leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bath leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, San Miguel de Allende 77: Bath leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, San Miguel de Allende 32: Bath leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, San Miguel de Allende 48: Bath leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bath leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, San Miguel de Allende 66: Bath leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BathSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m1,900 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSan Miguel de Allende
City population94,09269,811
People per km²3,245-
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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.