VacationSelector

Bangkok or Interlaken?

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.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokInterlaken
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance23 km713 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 54 points.54
BangkokInterlaken
Score8329
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2617
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 23 points.23
BangkokInterlaken
Score4623
Museums within 10 km1035
Museums within 2 km of centre302
Share of museums within 2 km %2940
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 79 points.79
BangkokInterlaken
Score834
Drinking venues within 4 km3,38342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,39638
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4190
Nightclubs within 4 km723
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokInterlaken
Score5127
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 43 points.43
BangkokInterlaken
Score5714
Tourist attractions within 2 km3111
Park area within 2 km42 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokInterlaken
Score4822
Notable places within 2 km6214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 58 points.58
BangkokInterlaken
Score9335
Price level global29.7110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 1 points.1
BangkokInterlaken
Score5657
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
2 h 20 m
€163-194
BKK · 26 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBangkokInterlaken
Official languageThaiFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyBaht (THB)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m571 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokInterlaken
City population5,676,6486,123
People per km²3,6191,424
Museums within 10 km593
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9122
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.