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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Dubrovnik?

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
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’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, Dubrovnik 74: Dubrovnik leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Dubrovnik 47: Bangkok leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Dubrovnik 72: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Dubrovnik 37: Bangkok leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Dubrovnik 70: Dubrovnik leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Dubrovnik 66: Bangkok leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bangkok and Dubrovnik are level on 50.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Dubrovnik 25: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Dubrovnik 28: Bangkok leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Dubrovnik 25: Bangkok leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Dubrovnik 32: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Dubrovnik.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Dubrovnik 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.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokDubrovnik
Official languageThaiCroatian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokDubrovnik
City population5,676,64841,562
People per km²3,619-
Museums within 10 km597
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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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. 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.

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.