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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bath or Thessaloniki?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Thessaloniki 74: Bath leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bath and Thessaloniki are level on 50.
Getting around. Bath 72, Thessaloniki 60: Bath leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Thessaloniki 50: Bath leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Thessaloniki 33: Bath leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathThessaloniki
Official languageEnglishGreek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m6 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathThessaloniki
City population94,092309,617
People per km²3,24516,042
Museums within 10 km1732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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. 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.