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Athens or Bangkok?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat 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.

AthensBangkok
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 8 points.8
AthensBangkok
Score4840
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km140
Coast distance6 km23 km
Water distance6 km23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 14 points.14
AthensBangkok
Score6983
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4313,957
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2526
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 27 points.27
AthensBangkok
Score7346
Museums within 10 km122103
Museums within 2 km of centre7830
Share of museums within 2 km %6429
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
AthensBangkok
Score8183
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7183,383
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3541,396
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5041
Nightclubs within 4 km13672
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 6 points.6
AthensBangkok
Score4551
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5083
Park area within 2 km128 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 14 points.14
AthensBangkok
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km6831
Park area within 2 km128 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 27 points.27
AthensBangkok
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km29162
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
AthensBangkok
Score7493
Price level global55.829.7
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 18 points.18
AthensBangkok
Score7456
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C32.4 °C to 35.8 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm7 mm to 331 mm
Dry months73
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensBangkok
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
9 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€168-200
BKK · 26 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€71-91
ATH · 20 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
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

MeasureAthensBangkok
Official languageGreekThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation74 m2 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensBangkok
City population643,4525,676,648
People per km²16,4993,619
Museums within 10 km8859
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8291
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.