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Philae temple on the Nile, Aswan
AswanPhilae temple on the Nile
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

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

Aswan 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 Aswan for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Aswan 10, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Aswan 30, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Aswan 64, Krabi 20: Aswan leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Aswan 8, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aswan 45, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Aswan 52, Krabi 40: Aswan leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Aswan 32, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Aswan 40, Krabi 30: Aswan leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Aswan 30, Krabi 20: Aswan leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Aswan 92, Krabi 78: Aswan leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aswan 14, Krabi 12: Aswan leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aswan 40, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aswan and Krabi.

Your match

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

Aswan
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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.

Aswan in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °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

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. Aswan: 1991-2020 normals, Asswan (18 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAswanKrabi
Official languageArabicThai
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation99 m16 m
Main airportAswan International Airport (ASW)16 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAswanKrabi
City population401,89030,499
People per km²1,072-
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.