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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • 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. Fukuoka 50, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Krabi 50: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Krabi 20: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Krabi 33: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Krabi 40: Fukuoka leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Krabi 55: Fukuoka leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Krabi 30: Fukuoka leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Krabi 20: Fukuoka leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Krabi 12: Fukuoka leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Krabi.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

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.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaKrabi
Official languageJapaneseThai
CurrencyYen (JPY)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation8 m16 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaKrabi
City population1,603,04330,499
People per km²4,715-
Museums within 10 km230
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.