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Bangkok or Cusco?

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 Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía, Cusco
Cusco

Photo: Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and wellness with your weighting.

Cusco
49
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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.

BangkokCusco
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
Food & drink. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
Culture & sights. Cusco leads by 1 points.1
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 43 points.43
Nature & outdoors. Cusco leads by 61 points.61
Day trips. Cusco leads by 6 points.6
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
Getting around. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
Shopping & style. Bangkok leads by 28 points.28
Affordability. Bangkok leads by 12 points.12
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok leads by 42 points.42
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Cusco.

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
JulyBangkokCusco
Daytime high34 °C20 °C
Night-time low26 °C1 °C
Rainfall in the month184 mm5 mm
Sunshine5 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperature30 °CNo sea
Daylight13 hours a day11 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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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Cusco
20
19
20
20
21
21
20
21
21
21
22
20
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Cusco
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Cusco
159
133
106
36
7
3
5
6
17
50
78
127
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Cusco
13
13
12
12
12
11
11
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Cusco
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

Cusco's station stands 151 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Cusco: 1991-2020 normals, Cuzco (3.7 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureBangkokCusco
Official languageThaiSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyBaht (THB)Sol (PEN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199111 or 911
Elevation2 m3,399 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsAlejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)5 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokCusco
City population5,676,648428,450
People per km²3,619-
Museums within 10 km5911
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.