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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Halifax or Phuket?

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 Halifax for

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

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

Choose Phuket for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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. Halifax 32, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Phuket 35: Halifax leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Phuket 80: Phuket leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Phuket 45: Halifax leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Phuket 22: Halifax leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Phuket 42: Phuket leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Phuket 20: Halifax leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 54 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Phuket.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches 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.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
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

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxPhuket
Official languageFrench, EnglishThai
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation28 m19 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxPhuket
City population440,07277,610
People per km²806,468
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.