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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Hong Kong 50, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Krabi 50: Hong Kong leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Krabi 20: Hong Kong leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Krabi 33: Hong Kong leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Krabi 40: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Krabi 55: Hong Kong leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Krabi 30: Hong Kong leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Krabi 20: Hong Kong leads by 68 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Krabi 12: Hong Kong leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 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: Hong Kong and Krabi.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongKrabi
Official languageStandard ChineseThai
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Baht (THB)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency number999Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation7 m16 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongKrabi
City population7,413,07030,499
Museums within 10 km390
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.