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A jetty on the lagoon, Faro
FaroA jetty on the lagoon
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Faro by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Faro 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 Faro for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krabi for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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. Faro 74, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Faro 48, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Faro 35, Krabi 20: Faro leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Faro 32, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Faro 62, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Faro 64, Krabi 40: Faro leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Faro 60, Krabi 55: Faro leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Faro 60, Krabi 30: Faro leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Faro 35, Krabi 20: Faro leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Faro 60, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Faro 30, Krabi 12: Faro leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Faro 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: Faro 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

Faro
49match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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.

Faro in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFaroKrabi
Official languagePortugueseThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation10 m16 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFaroKrabi
City population64,56030,499
People per km²319-
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.