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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Honolulu 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 Honolulu for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • day trips

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. Honolulu 91, Krabi 87: Honolulu leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Krabi 50: Honolulu leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Krabi 20: Honolulu leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Krabi 33: Honolulu leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Krabi 85: Honolulu leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Krabi 40: Krabi leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Krabi 55: Honolulu leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Krabi 30: Honolulu leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Krabi 20: Honolulu leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Krabi 12: Honolulu leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Krabi.

Your match

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

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights 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.

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 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

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. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluKrabi
Official language-Thai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-10UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation12 m16 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluKrabi
City population350,96430,499
People per km²1,981-
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.