VacationSelector

Bath or Sao Paulo?

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 beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather 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.

BathSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathSao Paulo
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance29 km51 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
BathSao Paulo
Score4673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 4 points.4
BathSao Paulo
Score4743
Museums within 10 km2082
Museums within 2 km of centre1426
Share of museums within 2 km %7032
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.36
BathSao Paulo
Score3672
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7551
Nightclubs within 4 km11118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
BathSao Paulo
Score4451
Protected land share 50 km %2826
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2715
Land share of disc %9295
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
BathSao Paulo
Score4055
Tourist attractions within 2 km1438
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
BathSao Paulo
Score3250
Notable places within 2 km2568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
BathSao Paulo
Score5481
Price level global84.946.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.28
BathSao Paulo
Score5583
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months01
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathSao Paulo
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
11 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 45 m
€255-300
GRU · 21 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
11 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 25 m
€445-559
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 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

MeasureBathSao Paulo
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation132 m760 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSao Paulo
City population94,09211,451,999
People per km²3,2457,519
Museums within 10 km1790
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3859
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. 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.