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Bangkok or Cairo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Wat Pho, Bangkok
Bangkok

Photo: Lu Zhao, Pexels License

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

Cairo
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BangkokCairo
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
Food & drink. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 16 points.16
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 37 points.37
Nature & outdoors. Cairo leads by 5 points.5
Day trips. Bangkok leads by 6 points.6
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
Getting around. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
Shopping & style. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Cairo leads by 10 points.10
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok leads by 60 points.60
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Cairo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBangkokCairo
Daytime high34 °C36 °C
Night-time low26 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month184 mm0 mm
Sunshine5 hours a day12 hours a day
Sea temperature30 °CNo sea
Daylight13 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBangkokCairo
RiyadhRUH
7 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€154-163
CAI · 17 km
JeddahJED
8 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€158-202
CAI · 17 km
Kuwait CityKWI
7 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€137-145
CAI · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
15 h 5 m
no fares
CAI · 17 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureBangkokCairo
Official languageThaiArabic
CurrencyBaht (THB)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2 m23 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokCairo
City population5,676,6489,801,536
People per km²3,61918,564
Museums within 10 km5948
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.