VacationSelector

Bath or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BathTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 67 points.67
BathTampa
Score875
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
BathTampa
Score4654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 20 points.20
BathTampa
Score4727
Museums within 10 km2013
Museums within 2 km of centre1410
Share of museums within 2 km %7077
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 3 points.3
BathTampa
Score3639
Drinking venues within 4 km320324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km1126
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 14 points.14
BathTampa
Score4430
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9272
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 10 points.10
BathTampa
Score4030
Tourist attractions within 2 km143
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathTampa
Score3221
Notable places within 2 km2513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathTampa
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 20 points.20
BathTampa
Score5575
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm36 mm to 228 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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
CincinnatiCVG, LUK
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureBathTampa
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m30 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathTampa
City population94,092384,959
People per km²3,245848
Museums within 10 km176
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3847
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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.