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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Breckenridge?

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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Breckenridge’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, Breckenridge 4: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Breckenridge 33: Bangkok leads by 62 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Breckenridge 20: Bangkok leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Breckenridge 30: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Breckenridge 90: Breckenridge leads by 65 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Breckenridge 44: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Breckenridge 60: Breckenridge leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Breckenridge 62: Breckenridge leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Breckenridge 25: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Breckenridge 10: Bangkok leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Breckenridge 32: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Breckenridge 30: Bangkok leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Breckenridge.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokBreckenridge
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m2,926 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBreckenridge
City population5,676,6485,078
People per km²3,619332
Museums within 10 km590
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.