VacationSelector

Bangkok or York?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokYork
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokYork
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance23 km50 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 29 points.29
BangkokYork
Score8354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Bangkok and York are level on 46.
BangkokYork
Score4646
Museums within 10 km10318
Museums within 2 km of centre3016
Share of museums within 2 km %2989
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokYork
Score8343
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4178
Nightclubs within 4 km7214
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 18 points.18
BangkokYork
Score5133
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %8395
Park area within 2 km42 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 14 points.14
BangkokYork
Score5743
Tourist attractions within 2 km3113
Park area within 2 km42 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
BangkokYork
Score4839
Notable places within 2 km6237
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokYork
Score9354
Price level global29.784.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Bangkok and York are level on 56.
BangkokYork
Score5656
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months31
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokYork
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
PhuketHKT
1 h 30 m
€56-63
BKK · 26 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New DelhiDEL
4 h 10 m
€267-290
BKK · 26 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
2 h 20 m
€163-194
BKK · 26 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PraguePRG
10 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureBangkokYork
Official languageThaiEnglish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112 or 999
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokYork
City population5,676,648208,400
People per km²3,619766
Museums within 10 km5924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9154
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. 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.