VacationSelector

Bangkok or Liverpool?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BangkokLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 20 points.20
BangkokLiverpool
Score4060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance23 km2 km
Water distance23 km2 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 23 points.23
BangkokLiverpool
Score8360
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokLiverpool
Score4643
Museums within 10 km10323
Museums within 2 km of centre3012
Share of museums within 2 km %2952
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokLiverpool
Score8361
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4167
Nightclubs within 4 km7279
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 7 points.7
BangkokLiverpool
Score5158
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8360
Park area within 2 km42 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 1 points.1
BangkokLiverpool
Score5758
Tourist attractions within 2 km3125
Park area within 2 km42 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Liverpool leads by 2 points.2
BangkokLiverpool
Score4850
Notable places within 2 km6268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokLiverpool
Score9354
Price level global29.784.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokLiverpool
Score5654
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months30
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokLiverpool
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
PhuketHKT
1 h 30 m
€56-63
BKK · 26 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
New DelhiDEL
4 h 10 m
€267-290
BKK · 26 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
PraguePRG
10 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
2 h 20 m
€163-194
BKK · 26 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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

MeasureBangkokLiverpool
Official languageThaiEnglish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112 or 999
Elevation2 m70 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLiverpool
City population5,676,648513,441
People per km²3,6194,592
Museums within 10 km5931
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9149
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. 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.