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Bangkok or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: Bangkok leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Bangkok leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: Bangkok leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

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.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BangkokSt. Petersburg, Florida

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokSt. Petersburg, Florida
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 m134 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population5,676,648258,308
People per km²3,619725
Museums within 10 km5913
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 months

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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.