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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Bangkok or Florence?

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
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Florence for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Florence leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Florence 74: Bangkok leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Florence 94: Florence leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Florence 42: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Florence 58: Florence leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Florence 98: Florence leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Florence 45: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Florence 78: Florence leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Florence 72: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Florence 35: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Florence 58: Florence leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Florence 42: Bangkok leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Florence.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Florence
59match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokFlorence
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m50 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokFlorence
City population5,676,648360,930
People per km²3,6193,528
Museums within 10 km59141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.