VacationSelector

Bath or Valencia?

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.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BathValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 59 points.59
BathValencia
Score867
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance29 km3 km
Water distance29 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 32 points.32
BathValencia
Score4678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
BathValencia
Score4755
Museums within 10 km2059
Museums within 2 km of centre1426
Share of museums within 2 km %7044
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 34 points.34
BathValencia
Score3670
Drinking venues within 4 km3201,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km11108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
BathValencia
Score4453
Protected land share 50 km %2810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9264
Park area within 2 km45 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 2 points.2
BathValencia
Score4042
Tourist attractions within 2 km1412
Park area within 2 km45 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
BathValencia
Score3252
Notable places within 2 km2578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
BathValencia
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 29 points.29
BathValencia
Score5584
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathValencia
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
50 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€46-48
VLC · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€100-186
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathValencia
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
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 m15 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathValencia
City population94,092840,792
People per km²3,2456,242
Museums within 10 km1746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3892
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.