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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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. Arequipa 8, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Krabi 50: Arequipa leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Krabi 20: Arequipa leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Krabi 33: Arequipa leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Krabi 40: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Krabi 30: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Krabi 20: Arequipa leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Krabi 78: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Krabi 12: Arequipa leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Krabi.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Krabi
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaKrabi
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaThai
CurrencySol (PEN)Baht (THB)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency number111 or 911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation2,335 m16 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaKrabi
City population1,008,29030,499
People per km²1,551-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. 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.