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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Barcelona or Krabi?

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 Barcelona for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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. Barcelona 75, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Krabi 50: Barcelona leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Krabi 20: Barcelona leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Krabi 33: Barcelona leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Krabi 40: Barcelona leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Krabi 55: Barcelona leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Krabi 30: Barcelona leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Krabi 20: Barcelona leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Krabi 12: Barcelona leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Krabi.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaKrabi
Official languageSpanishThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation9 m16 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaKrabi
City population1,731,64930,499
People per km²17,094-
Museums within 10 km950
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.