VacationSelector

Bangkok or Dublin?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dublin
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

BangkokDublin
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 9 points.9
BangkokDublin
Score4049
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km011
Coast distance23 km3 km
Water distance23 km3 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokDublin
Score8370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957920
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 9 points.9
BangkokDublin
Score4655
Museums within 10 km10347
Museums within 2 km of centre3037
Share of museums within 2 km %2979
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokDublin
Score8364
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,239
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396934
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4175
Nightclubs within 4 km7240
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokDublin
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8362
Park area within 2 km42 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokDublin
Score5754
Tourist attractions within 2 km3141
Park area within 2 km42 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
BangkokDublin
Score4862
Notable places within 2 km62141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 36 points.36
BangkokDublin
Score9357
Price level global29.780.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokDublin
Score5654
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C8.2 °C to 19.5 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm52 mm to 83 mm
Dry months30
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokDublin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureBangkokDublin
Official languageThaiEnglish, Irish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m20 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokDublin
City population5,676,648592,713
People per km²3,6195,154
Museums within 10 km5940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9174
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.