VacationSelector

Bangkok or Los Angeles?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BangkokLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokLos Angeles
Score4029
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km
Water distance23 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 17 points.17
BangkokLos Angeles
Score8366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 3 points.3
BangkokLos Angeles
Score4649
Museums within 10 km10369
Museums within 2 km of centre3023
Share of museums within 2 km %2933
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokLos Angeles
Score8354
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4165
Nightclubs within 4 km7264
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
BangkokLos Angeles
Score5162
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8380
Park area within 2 km42 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokLos Angeles
Score5733
Tourist attractions within 2 km3111
Park area within 2 km42 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
BangkokLos Angeles
Score4854
Notable places within 2 km6288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 50 points.50
BangkokLos Angeles
Score9343
Price level global29.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 31 points.31
BangkokLos Angeles
Score5687
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months38
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Los Angeles
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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokLos Angeles
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
GuangzhouCAN
2 h 40 m
€144-163
BKK · 26 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
1 h 30 m
€127-140
BKK · 26 km
16 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 55 m
€168-200
BKK · 26 km
14 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
14 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€166-318
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureBangkokLos Angeles
Official languageThai
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m106 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLos Angeles
City population5,676,6483,898,747
People per km²3,6192,994
Museums within 10 km5938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9146
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.