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The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
CairoThe pyramids of Giza
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cairo 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 Cairo for

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

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • 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. Cairo 10, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Cairo 60, Krabi 50: Cairo leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cairo 96, Krabi 20: Cairo leads by 76 points.
Nightlife. Cairo 48, Krabi 33: Cairo leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairo 30, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Cairo 66, Krabi 40: Cairo leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Cairo 32, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Cairo 35, Krabi 30: Cairo leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Cairo 58, Krabi 20: Cairo leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Cairo 95, Krabi 78: Cairo leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairo 50, Krabi 12: Cairo leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairo 15, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 57 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Krabi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cairo
50match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches 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.

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairoKrabi
Official languageArabicThai
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation23 m16 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCairoKrabi
City population9,801,53630,499
People per km²18,564-
Museums within 10 km480
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.