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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Bogota?

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 Bangkok for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Bogota for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’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. Bangkok 12, Bogota 5: Bangkok leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Bogota 66: Bangkok leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Bogota 68: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Bogota 72: Bangkok leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Bogota 64: Bogota leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Bogota 52: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Bogota 45: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Bogota 36: Bangkok leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Bogota 52: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Bogota 77: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Bogota 64: Bogota leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Bogota 28: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Bogota.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

Bogota
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokBogota
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199123
Elevation2 m2,582 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-19 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBogota
City population5,676,6488,034,649
People per km²3,6195,092
Museums within 10 km5930
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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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. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.