VacationSelector

Bangkok or Warsaw?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BangkokWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokWarsaw
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance23 km238 km
Water distance23 km—
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokWarsaw
Score8372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
BangkokWarsaw
Score4663
Museums within 10 km103107
Museums within 2 km of centre3060
Share of museums within 2 km %2956
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 21 points.21
BangkokWarsaw
Score8362
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4164
Nightclubs within 4 km72104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 4 points.4
BangkokWarsaw
Score5155
Protected land share 50 km %—27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
BangkokWarsaw
Score5770
Tourist attractions within 2 km3142
Park area within 2 km42 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
BangkokWarsaw
Score4876
Notable places within 2 km62299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 14 points.14
BangkokWarsaw
Score9379
Price level global29.749
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
BangkokWarsaw
Score5659
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months36
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New DelhiDEL
4 h 10 m
€267-290
BKK · 26 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureBangkokWarsaw
Official languageThaiPolish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m118 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokWarsaw
City population5,676,6481,862,402
People per km²3,6193,601
Museums within 10 km59117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9176
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.