VacationSelector
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence 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 Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Florence 14, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Krabi 50: Florence leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Krabi 20: Florence leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Krabi 33: Florence leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Krabi 40: Florence leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Krabi 30: Florence leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Krabi 20: Florence leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Krabi 12: Florence leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 30 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Krabi.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300400JFMAMJJASOND
FlorenceKrabi

Where the figures come from

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceKrabi
Official languageItalianThai
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation50 m16 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceKrabi
City population360,93030,499
People per km²3,528-
Museums within 10 km1410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Florence or Krabi somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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). 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. 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.