VacationSelector

Bangkok or West Palm Beach?

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 value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BangkokWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 48 points.48
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score4088
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 46 points.46
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score8337
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score4617
Museums within 10 km1035
Museums within 2 km of centre303
Share of museums within 2 km %2960
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 63 points.63
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score8320
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,39690
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4168
Nightclubs within 4 km7210
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 18 points.18
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score5169
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8345
Park area within 2 km42 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 36 points.36
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score5721
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km42 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 36 points.36
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score4812
Notable places within 2 km628
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 50 points.50
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score9343
Price level global29.7100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.19
BangkokWest Palm Beach
Score5675
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months30
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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokWest Palm Beach
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 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

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 centre142 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre9118
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. 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.