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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Bangkok or Havana?

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

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • shopping

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

Choose Havana for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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, Havana 64: Havana leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Havana 40: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Havana 77: Bangkok leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Havana 60: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Havana 34: Havana leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Havana 38: Bangkok leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Havana 34: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Havana 38: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Havana 30: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Havana 58: Bangkok leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Havana 74: Havana leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Havana 22: Bangkok leads by 53 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Havana.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and wellness with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana 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). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokHavana
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation2 m59 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokHavana
City population5,676,6482,492,618
People per km²3,6193,423
Museums within 10 km5912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bangkok or Havana somewhere new.

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.