VacationSelector

Bangkok or Lisbon?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

BangkokLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
BangkokLisbon
Score4057
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km024
Coast distance23 km2 km
Water distance23 km2 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokLisbon
Score8380
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9572,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
BangkokLisbon
Score4670
Museums within 10 km103124
Museums within 2 km of centre3054
Share of museums within 2 km %2944
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
BangkokLisbon
Score8365
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4178
Nightclubs within 4 km7265
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 5 points.5
BangkokLisbon
Score5156
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8354
Park area within 2 km42 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
BangkokLisbon
Score5769
Tourist attractions within 2 km3182
Park area within 2 km42 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
BangkokLisbon
Score4866
Notable places within 2 km62169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokLisbon
Score9374
Price level global29.755.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
BangkokLisbon
Score5678
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months34
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 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

MeasureBangkokLisbon
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m100 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLisbon
City population5,676,648545,796
People per km²3,6195,453
Museums within 10 km5978
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre91106
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.