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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Sedona?

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

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Sedona leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Sedona 33: Bangkok leads by 62 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Sedona 20: Bangkok leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Sedona 8: Bangkok leads by 77 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 68 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Sedona 55: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Sedona 42: Bangkok leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Sedona 22: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Sedona 34: Bangkok leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Sedona 18: Bangkok leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Sedona 13: Bangkok leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Sedona.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokSedona
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m1,319 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSedona
City population5,676,6489,684
People per km²3,619195
Museums within 10 km590
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.