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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Interlaken?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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, Interlaken 30: Interlaken leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Interlaken 25: Bangkok leads by 70 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Interlaken 8: Bangkok leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Interlaken 15: Bangkok leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 72 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Interlaken 22: Bangkok leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Interlaken 8: Bangkok leads by 77 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Interlaken 15: Bangkok leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Interlaken 40: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Interlaken.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Interlaken 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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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 centre150 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.