VacationSelector

Bangkok or Helsinki?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BangkokHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 20 points.20
BangkokHelsinki
Score4060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km0157
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 12 points.12
BangkokHelsinki
Score8371
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2638
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 3 points.3
BangkokHelsinki
Score4649
Museums within 10 km10357
Museums within 2 km of centre3023
Share of museums within 2 km %2940
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 27 points.27
BangkokHelsinki
Score8356
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4175
Nightclubs within 4 km7240
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
BangkokHelsinki
Score5142
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8353
Park area within 2 km42 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 1 points.1
BangkokHelsinki
Score5758
Tourist attractions within 2 km3120
Park area within 2 km42 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 25 points.25
BangkokHelsinki
Score4873
Notable places within 2 km62257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 37 points.37
BangkokHelsinki
Score9356
Price level global29.781.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokHelsinki
Score5648
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months33
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokHelsinki
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 25 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
6 h 55 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureBangkokHelsinki
Official languageThaiFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m17 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokHelsinki
City population5,676,648694,392
People per km²3,6193,239
Museums within 10 km5974
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9178
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. 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.