VacationSelector

Bangkok or Lyon?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Lyon
52
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.

BangkokLyon
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokLyon
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance23 km253 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokLyon
Score8379
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2640
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
BangkokLyon
Score4655
Museums within 10 km10353
Museums within 2 km of centre3025
Share of museums within 2 km %2947
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokLyon
Score8358
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4171
Nightclubs within 4 km7247
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
BangkokLyon
Score5133
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
BangkokLyon
Score5759
Tourist attractions within 2 km3125
Park area within 2 km42 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
BangkokLyon
Score4854
Notable places within 2 km6286
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 31 points.31
BangkokLyon
Score9362
Price level global29.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
BangkokLyon
Score5664
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 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

MeasureBangkokLyon
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m160 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLyon
City population5,676,648519,127
People per km²3,61910,838
Museums within 10 km5942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre91148
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.