VacationSelector

Bangkok or Granada?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Granada
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

BangkokGranada
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokGranada
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km48 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokGranada
Score8367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 2 points.2
BangkokGranada
Score4648
Museums within 10 km10328
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %2993
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 31 points.31
BangkokGranada
Score8352
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4178
Nightclubs within 4 km7246
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 12 points.12
BangkokGranada
Score5163
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8396
Park area within 2 km42 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokGranada
Score5756
Tourist attractions within 2 km3160
Park area within 2 km42 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokGranada
Score4844
Notable places within 2 km6250
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokGranada
Score9371
Price level global29.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 18 points.18
BangkokGranada
Score5674
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months37
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Granada
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Granada
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
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
HelsinkiHEL
10 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 35 m
€198-239
2 stops
AGP · 97 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

MeasureBangkokGranada
Official languageThaiSpanish
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 m693 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokGranada
City population5,676,648233,975
People per km²3,6192,659
Museums within 10 km5919
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9162
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.