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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Bath or Valencia?

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 Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Bath and Valencia are level on 68.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Valencia 60: Valencia leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Valencia 70: Bath leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Valencia 42: Bath leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Valencia.

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.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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 centre117 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 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 km1745
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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. 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.