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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Bangkok or Essaouira?

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

  • nightlife
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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, Essaouira 47: Essaouira leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Essaouira 44: Bangkok leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Essaouira 48: Bangkok leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Essaouira 14: Bangkok leads by 71 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Essaouira 57: Essaouira leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Essaouira 17: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Essaouira 42: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Essaouira 58: Essaouira leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Essaouira 44: Bangkok leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Essaouira 74: Bangkok leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Essaouira 28: Bangkok leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Essaouira 66: Bangkok leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Essaouira.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and day trips with your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira 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). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokEssaouira
Official languageThaiArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyBaht (THB)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation2 m11 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokEssaouira
City population5,676,64882,962
People per km²3,61916,592
Museums within 10 km592
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.