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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Chicago 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 Chicago for

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

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

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. Chicago 50, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Chicago 80, Krabi 50: Chicago leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Chicago 78, Krabi 20: Chicago leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Chicago 77, Krabi 33: Chicago leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chicago 48, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Chicago 42, Krabi 40: Chicago leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Chicago 78, Krabi 55: Chicago leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Chicago 72, Krabi 30: Chicago leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Chicago 70, Krabi 20: Chicago leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Chicago 33, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chicago 82, Krabi 12: Chicago leads by 70 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chicago 33, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 39 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chicago and Krabi.

Your match

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

Chicago
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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.

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChicagoKrabi
Official language-Thai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation179 m16 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoKrabi
City population2,746,38830,499
People per km²4,529-
Museums within 10 km440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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.