VacationSelector

Bath or Vancouver?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BathVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 52 points.52
BathVancouver
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1109
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 28 points.28
BathVancouver
Score4674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 13 points.13
BathVancouver
Score4734
Museums within 10 km2027
Museums within 2 km of centre1415
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 21 points.21
BathVancouver
Score3657
Drinking venues within 4 km320848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km1144
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 33 points.33
BathVancouver
Score4477
Protected land share 50 km %2819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9260
Park area within 2 km45 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 13 points.13
BathVancouver
Score4053
Tourist attractions within 2 km1415
Park area within 2 km45 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 16 points.16
BathVancouver
Score3248
Notable places within 2 km2563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath and Vancouver are level on 54.
BathVancouver
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathVancouver
Score5553
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months00
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathVancouver
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
9 h 55 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CalgaryYYC
8 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 30 m
€73-86
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Las VegasLAS
10 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBathVancouver
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m2 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathVancouver
City population94,092662,248
People per km²3,2455,759
Museums within 10 km1726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3885
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.