VacationSelector

Bangkok or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

BangkokValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 27 points.27
BangkokValencia
Score4067
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance23 km3 km
Water distance23 km3 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 5 points.5
BangkokValencia
Score8378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
BangkokValencia
Score4655
Museums within 10 km10359
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %2944
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 13 points.13
BangkokValencia
Score8370
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4163
Nightclubs within 4 km72108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 2 points.2
BangkokValencia
Score5153
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8364
Park area within 2 km42 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokValencia
Score5742
Tourist attractions within 2 km3112
Park area within 2 km42 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
BangkokValencia
Score4852
Notable places within 2 km6278
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 22 points.22
BangkokValencia
Score9371
Price level global29.760.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
BangkokValencia
Score5684
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months38
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 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

MeasureBangkokValencia
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m15 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokValencia
City population5,676,648840,792
People per km²3,6196,242
Museums within 10 km5946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9192
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.