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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Huatulco?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Huatulco for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Huatulco’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, Huatulco 86: Huatulco leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Huatulco 44: Bangkok leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Huatulco 15: Bangkok leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Huatulco 24: Bangkok leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Huatulco 76: Huatulco leads by 51 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Huatulco 40: Bangkok leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Huatulco 56: Huatulco leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Huatulco 33: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Huatulco 20: Bangkok leads by 60 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Huatulco 62: Bangkok leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Huatulco 9: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Huatulco 52: Bangkok leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Huatulco.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Huatulco
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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). Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokHuatulco
Official languageThaiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBaht (THB)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m220 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokHuatulco
City population5,676,6487,409
People per km²3,619-
Museums within 10 km590
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.