VacationSelector

Bangkok or Strasbourg?

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 nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and year-round weather 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.

BangkokStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokStrasbourg
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance23 km398 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokStrasbourg
Score8367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 5 points.5
BangkokStrasbourg
Score4641
Museums within 10 km10323
Museums within 2 km of centre3014
Share of museums within 2 km %2961
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 47 points.47
BangkokStrasbourg
Score8336
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4187
Nightclubs within 4 km7217
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 3 points.3
BangkokStrasbourg
Score5154
Protected land share 50 km %37
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokStrasbourg
Score5738
Tourist attractions within 2 km319
Park area within 2 km42 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 10 points.10
BangkokStrasbourg
Score4858
Notable places within 2 km62109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 31 points.31
BangkokStrasbourg
Score9362
Price level global29.773.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 7 points.7
BangkokStrasbourg
Score5663
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months33
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokStrasbourg
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PhuketHKT
1 h 30 m
€56-63
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
New DelhiDEL
4 h 10 m
€267-290
BKK · 26 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
2 h 20 m
€163-194
BKK · 26 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureBangkokStrasbourg
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 m132 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokStrasbourg
City population5,676,648293,771
People per km²3,6193,752
Museums within 10 km5921
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9187
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. 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.