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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bath or Stockholm?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Stockholm 68: Bath leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Stockholm 56: Bath leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
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 m22 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathStockholm
City population94,092984,748
People per km²3,2455,260
Museums within 10 km17266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

Where else could you go?

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.