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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Porto?

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

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Porto for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Porto 70: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Porto 68: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Porto 65: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Porto 64: Porto leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Porto 79: Porto leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Porto 52: Porto leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Porto 66: Porto leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Porto 52: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Porto 62: Bangkok leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok and Porto are level on 52.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Porto 34: Bangkok leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Porto.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Porto
59match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BangkokPorto

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokPorto
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m104 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokPorto
City population5,676,648273,476
People per km²3,6196,606
Museums within 10 km5942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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.