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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Nice?

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
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Nice 66: Bangkok leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Nice 64: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Nice 47: Bangkok leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Nice 80: Nice leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Nice 87: Nice leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Nice 57: Nice leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Nice 74: Nice leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Nice 55: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Nice 35: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Nice 45: Bangkok leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Nice 40: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Nice.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
60match

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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokNice
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 m0 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokNice
City population5,676,648357,737
People per km²3,6194,975
Museums within 10 km5917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.