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The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

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

Durban 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 Durban for

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

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

Choose Krabi for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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. Durban 80, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Krabi 50: Durban leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Krabi 20: Durban leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Krabi 33: Durban leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Krabi 40: Krabi leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Krabi 55: Durban leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Krabi 30: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Krabi 20: Durban leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Krabi 12: Durban leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Krabi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Durban
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on wellness 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.

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanKrabi
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageThai
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation22 m16 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanKrabi
City population595,06130,499
People per km²2,634-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.