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Skiers at the Albion base of the ski area, Alta, Utah
Alta, UtahSkiers at the Albion base of the ski area
Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho

Photos: Alta, Utah by Sumanch, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License.

Alta, Utah or Bangkok?

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 Alta, Utah for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Alta, Utah’s own page.

Choose Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’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. Alta, Utah 3, Bangkok 12: Bangkok leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Alta, Utah 15, Bangkok 95: Bangkok leads by 80 points.
Culture & sights. Alta, Utah 5, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Alta, Utah 4, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 81 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alta, Utah 90, Bangkok 25: Alta, Utah leads by 65 points.
Day trips. Alta, Utah 40, Bangkok 72: Bangkok leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Alta, Utah 30, Bangkok 50: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Alta, Utah 35, Bangkok 50: Bangkok leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Alta, Utah 4, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 76 points.
Affordability. Alta, Utah 15, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alta, Utah 3, Bangkok 52: Bangkok leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alta, Utah 35, Bangkok 75: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alta, Utah and Bangkok.

Your match

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

Alta, Utah
23match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alta, Utah in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Alta, UtahBangkok

Where the figures come from

Alta, Utah has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alta, Utah: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlta, UtahBangkok
Official language-Thai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation2,610 m2 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)37 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlta, UtahBangkok
City population2285,676,648
People per km²193,619
Museums within 10 km059
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.