VacationSelector

Bangkok or Miami?

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.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BangkokMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 55 points.55
BangkokMiami
Score4095
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
BangkokMiami
Score8365
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 23 points.23
BangkokMiami
Score4623
Museums within 10 km10328
Museums within 2 km of centre306
Share of museums within 2 km %2921
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokMiami
Score8350
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4153
Nightclubs within 4 km7263
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 21 points.21
BangkokMiami
Score5172
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8348
Park area within 2 km42 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokMiami
Score5744
Tourist attractions within 2 km3114
Park area within 2 km42 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 6 points.6
BangkokMiami
Score4842
Notable places within 2 km6245
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 50 points.50
BangkokMiami
Score9343
Price level global29.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 18 points.18
BangkokMiami
Score5674
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureBangkokMiami
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 m2 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMiami
City population5,676,648442,241
People per km²3,6193,046
Museums within 10 km5917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9139
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. 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.