VacationSelector

Bangkok or Berlin?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BangkokBerlin
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokBerlin
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance23 km142 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokBerlin
Score8370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 33 points.33
BangkokBerlin
Score4679
Museums within 10 km103200
Museums within 2 km of centre3081
Share of museums within 2 km %2941
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 7 points.7
BangkokBerlin
Score8376
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3832,114
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396719
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4134
Nightclubs within 4 km72135
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokBerlin
Score5149
Protected land share 50 km %20
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares141 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BangkokBerlin
Score5776
Tourist attractions within 2 km3154
Park area within 2 km42 hectares141 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 36 points.36
BangkokBerlin
Score4884
Notable places within 2 km62486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokBerlin
Score9360
Price level global29.775.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BangkokBerlin
Score5660
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C3.7 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm29 mm to 76 mm
Dry months33
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBerlin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 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

MeasureBangkokBerlin
Official languageThaiGerman
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m34 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBerlin
City population5,676,6483,782,202
People per km²3,6194,244
Museums within 10 km59158
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre9186
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.