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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Miami Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bangkok for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’s own page.

Choose Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bangkok 12, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Miami Beach 62: Bangkok leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Miami Beach 52: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Miami Beach 80: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Miami Beach 55: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Miami Beach 58: Miami Beach leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Miami Beach 55: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Miami Beach 20: Bangkok leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Miami Beach 48: Bangkok leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Miami Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BangkokMiami Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokMiami Beach
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m1 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMiami Beach
City population5,676,64882,890
People per km²3,6192,109
Museums within 10 km5914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.