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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Valparaiso?

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 Valparaiso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Valparaiso 50: Bangkok leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Valparaiso 62: Bangkok leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Valparaiso 56: Bangkok leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Valparaiso 63: Bangkok leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Valparaiso 33: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Valparaiso 44: Bangkok leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Valparaiso 30: Bangkok leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Valparaiso 60: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Valparaiso 38: Bangkok leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Valparaiso 18: Bangkok leads by 57 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Valparaiso.

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.

Valparaiso
46match

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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokValparaiso
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation2 m21 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokValparaiso
City population5,676,648296,655
People per km²3,6196,180
Museums within 10 km5917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.