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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Chengdu 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 Chengdu for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Chengdu 5, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Krabi 50: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Krabi 20: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Krabi 33: Chengdu leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Krabi 40: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Krabi 55: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Krabi 30: Chengdu leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Krabi 20: Chengdu leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Krabi 78: Chengdu leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Krabi 12: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Krabi.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

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.

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduKrabi
Official languagePutonghuaThai
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Baht (THB)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation500 m16 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureChengduKrabi
City population20,937,75730,499
People per km²1,456-
Museums within 10 km100
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.