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Bangkok or Macau?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Wat Pho, Bangkok
Bangkok

Photo: Lu Zhao, Pexels License

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Macau
46
match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

BangkokMacau
Beaches & swimming. Macau leads by 12 points.12
Food & drink. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
Culture & sights. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 45 points.45
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok leads by 20 points.20
Day trips. Bangkok leads by 20 points.20
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
Getting around. Macau leads by 10 points.10
Shopping & style. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Bangkok leads by 41 points.41
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok leads by 35 points.35
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Macau.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBangkokMacau
Daytime high34 °C32 °C
Night-time low26 °C26 °C
Rainfall in the month184 mm281 mm
Sunshine5 hours a day7 hours a day
Sea temperature30 °C29 °C
Daylight13 hours a day13 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBangkokMacau
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€159-193
MFM · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
€181-203
1 stop
MFM · 7 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 15 m
€202-210
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€125-142
MFM · 7 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 10 m
€161-171
DMK · 21 km
3 h 35 m
€253-326
1 stop
MFM · 7 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
HanoiHAN
1 h 50 m
€132-139
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
7 h 45 m
€690-962
2 stops
HKG · 41 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

MeasureBangkokMacau
Official languageThaiPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199999
Elevation2 m22 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMacau
City population5,676,648682,100
People per km²3,6195,916
Museums within 10 km5928
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 months

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Sources

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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.