VacationSelector

Atlanta or Bangkok?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

AtlantaBangkok
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
AtlantaBangkok
Score040
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance373 km23 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
AtlantaBangkok
Score5983
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7393,957
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2326
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaBangkok
Score3546
Museums within 10 km41103
Museums within 2 km of centre1630
Share of museums within 2 km %3929
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 34 points.34
AtlantaBangkok
Score4983
Drinking venues within 4 km5313,383
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2841,396
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5341
Nightclubs within 4 km4672
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaBangkok
Score3151
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km113 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaBangkok
Score3257
Tourist attractions within 2 km231
Park area within 2 km113 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaBangkok
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km3962
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 50 points.50
AtlantaBangkok
Score4393
Price level global10029.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaBangkok
Score6756
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C32.4 °C to 35.8 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBangkok
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaBangkok
Official languageThai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation225 m2 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBangkok
City population498,7155,676,648
People per km²1,4333,619
Museums within 10 km2759
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5691
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.