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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hobart 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 Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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. Hobart 30, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Krabi 50: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Krabi 20: Hobart leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart and Krabi are level on 85.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Krabi 40: Hobart leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Krabi 55: Hobart leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Krabi 30: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Krabi 20: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Krabi 12: Hobart leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Krabi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Hobart
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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.

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartKrabi
Official languageEnglishThai
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Baht (THB)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number000Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation54 m16 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHobartKrabi
City population197,45130,499
People per km²116-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.