VacationSelector

Bangkok or Faro?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Faro
47
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BangkokFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 21 points.21
BangkokFaro
Score4061
Swim season months123
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokFaro
Score8344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokFaro
Score4622
Museums within 10 km1039
Museums within 2 km of centre308
Share of museums within 2 km %2989
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 62 points.62
BangkokFaro
Score8321
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4186
Nightclubs within 4 km728
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 6 points.6
BangkokFaro
Score5157
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8342
Park area within 2 km42 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 21 points.21
BangkokFaro
Score5736
Tourist attractions within 2 km3110
Park area within 2 km42 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokFaro
Score4822
Notable places within 2 km6214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokFaro
Score9374
Price level global29.755.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 27 points.27
BangkokFaro
Score5683
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months36
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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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€85-128
1 stop
FAO · 3 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

MeasureBangkokFaro
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokFaro
City population5,676,64864,560
People per km²3,619319
Museums within 10 km592
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9134
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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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.