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Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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. Gold Coast 92, Krabi 87: Gold Coast leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Gold Coast 47, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Gold Coast 15, Krabi 20: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Gold Coast 55, Krabi 33: Gold Coast leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gold Coast 82, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Gold Coast 52, Krabi 40: Gold Coast leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Gold Coast 89, Krabi 55: Gold Coast leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Gold Coast 45, Krabi 30: Gold Coast leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Gold Coast 40, Krabi 20: Gold Coast leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Gold Coast 35, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gold Coast 30, Krabi 12: Gold Coast leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gold Coast 42, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gold Coast and Krabi.

Your match

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

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

Wins on families and nightlife 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.

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 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

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

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. Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGold CoastKrabi
Official languageEnglishThai
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Baht (THB)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+7
Emergency number000Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation12 m16 m
Main airportGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGold CoastKrabi
City population607,66530,499
People per km²433-
Museums within 10 km20
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.