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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Krabi?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Krabi 50: Amman leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Krabi 20: Amman leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Krabi 40: Amman leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Amman and Krabi are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Krabi 20: Amman leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Krabi 12: Amman leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Krabi.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Krabi
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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.

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanKrabi
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 m16 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanKrabi
City population4,007,52630,499
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.