VacationSelector

Bangkok or Madrid?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BangkokMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokMadrid
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance23 km305 km
Water distance23 km—
Places to eat. Bangkok and Madrid are level on 83.
BangkokMadrid
Score8383
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9573,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2628
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 29 points.29
BangkokMadrid
Score4675
Museums within 10 km10397
Museums within 2 km of centre3059
Share of museums within 2 km %2961
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokMadrid
Score8381
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3832,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3961,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4162
Nightclubs within 4 km72341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 12 points.12
BangkokMadrid
Score5163
Protected land share 50 km %—19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
BangkokMadrid
Score5777
Tourist attractions within 2 km3161
Park area within 2 km42 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
BangkokMadrid
Score4875
Notable places within 2 km62288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokMadrid
Score9371
Price level global29.760.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 16 points.16
BangkokMadrid
Score5672
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months37
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokMadrid
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureBangkokMadrid
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m663 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMadrid
City population5,676,6483,506,730
People per km²3,6195,801
Museums within 10 km5988
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre91106
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.