VacationSelector

Bath or Thessaloniki?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bath
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 47 points.47
BathThessaloniki
Score855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
BathThessaloniki
Score4650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2615
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
BathThessaloniki
Score4749
Museums within 10 km2034
Museums within 2 km of centre1422
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
BathThessaloniki
Score3667
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km1161
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 21 points.21
BathThessaloniki
Score4465
Protected land share 50 km %2825
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9283
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
BathThessaloniki
Score4041
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 24 points.24
BathThessaloniki
Score3256
Notable places within 2 km2598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
BathThessaloniki
Score5474
Price level global84.955.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
BathThessaloniki
Score5572
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathThessaloniki
AthensATH
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
HeraklionHER
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
LarnacaLCA
4 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
PaphosPFO
4 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€82-135
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
RhodesRHO
4 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€127-152
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 148 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

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 centre116 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 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 km1731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3845
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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. 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.