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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok or West Palm Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’s own page.

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, West Palm Beach 52: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, West Palm Beach 42: Bangkok leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, West Palm Beach 36: Bangkok leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, West Palm Beach 58: West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, West Palm Beach 55: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, West Palm Beach 38: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, West Palm Beach 64: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, West Palm Beach 23: Bangkok leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, West Palm Beach 47: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, West Palm Beach 44: Bangkok leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and West Palm Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BangkokWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokWest Palm Beach
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokWest Palm Beach
City population5,676,648117,415
People per km²3,619786
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.