VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Bangkok?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

AmsterdamBangkok
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam and Bangkok are level on 40.
AmsterdamBangkok
Score4040
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km23 km
Water distance24 km23 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam and Bangkok are level on 83.
AmsterdamBangkok
Score8383
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9573,957
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4426
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 34 points.34
AmsterdamBangkok
Score8046
Museums within 10 km98103
Museums within 2 km of centre6930
Share of museums within 2 km %7029
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
AmsterdamBangkok
Score7083
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5433,383
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,0781,396
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7041
Nightclubs within 4 km11472
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamBangkok
Score6051
Protected land share 50 km %21—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8283
Park area within 2 km49 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 11 points.11
AmsterdamBangkok
Score6857
Tourist attractions within 2 km7431
Park area within 2 km49 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 20 points.20
AmsterdamBangkok
Score6848
Notable places within 2 km19662
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamBangkok
Score5893
Price level global79.229.7
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamBangkok
Score5756
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C32.4 °C to 35.8 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm7 mm to 331 mm
Dry months03
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamBangkok
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAmsterdamBangkok
Official languageDutchThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation-2 m2 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days–

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamBangkok
City population921,4685,676,648
People per km²4,2083,619
Museums within 10 km10159
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9891
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. 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.