VacationSelector

Bangkok or Ghent?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BangkokGhent
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 14 points.14
BangkokGhent
Score4026
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance23 km32 km
Water distance23 km32 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokGhent
Score8370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2649
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 12 points.12
BangkokGhent
Score4658
Museums within 10 km10324
Museums within 2 km of centre3020
Share of museums within 2 km %2983
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 34 points.34
BangkokGhent
Score8349
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4178
Nightclubs within 4 km7226
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 17 points.17
BangkokGhent
Score5134
Protected land share 50 km %—7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %8387
Park area within 2 km42 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 7 points.7
BangkokGhent
Score5750
Tourist attractions within 2 km3119
Park area within 2 km42 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokGhent
Score4846
Notable places within 2 km6255
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokGhent
Score9360
Price level global29.776.2
Daily budget—€180
Year-round weather. Bangkok and Ghent are level on 56.
BangkokGhent
Score5656
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months31
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokGhent
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureBangkokGhent
Official languageThaiFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m12 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokGhent
City population5,676,648272,657
People per km²3,6191,728
Museums within 10 km5930
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre9183
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.