VacationSelector

Bangkok or Venice?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BangkokVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 29 points.29
BangkokVenice
Score4069
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance23 km4 km
Water distance23 km4 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 38 points.38
BangkokVenice
Score8345
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 26 points.26
BangkokVenice
Score4672
Museums within 10 km10357
Museums within 2 km of centre3045
Share of museums within 2 km %2979
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 48 points.48
BangkokVenice
Score8335
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4189
Nightclubs within 4 km723
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 34 points.34
BangkokVenice
Score5117
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8370
Park area within 2 km42 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok and Venice are level on 57.
BangkokVenice
Score5757
Tourist attractions within 2 km3172
Park area within 2 km42 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 35 points.35
BangkokVenice
Score4883
Notable places within 2 km62464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokVenice
Score9368
Price level global29.764.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 10 points.10
BangkokVenice
Score5666
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months32
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 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

MeasureBangkokVenice
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokVenice
City population5,676,648250,369
People per km²3,619602
Museums within 10 km5952
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre9146
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.