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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Huntington Beach 70, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Krabi 20: Krabi leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Krabi 33: Huntington Beach leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Krabi 40: Huntington Beach leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Krabi 55: Huntington Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Krabi 30: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Krabi 20: Huntington Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Krabi 12: Huntington Beach leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Krabi.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

Krabi
Best match
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.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 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. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachKrabi
Official language-Thai
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation12 m16 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachKrabi
City population198,71130,499
People per km²2,406-
Museums within 10 km30
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.