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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License.

Amman 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 Amman for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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. Amman 22, Bangkok 12: Amman leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Bangkok 95: Bangkok leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Bangkok 25: Amman leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Bangkok 72: Amman leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Bangkok 50: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Bangkok 50: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Bangkok 52: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Bangkok 75: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Bangkok.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanBangkok
Official languageArabicThai
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Baht (THB)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation776 m2 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanBangkok
City population4,007,5265,676,648
People per km²2,3853,619
Museums within 10 km859
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.