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The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Johannesburg by K, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg for

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

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • 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. Johannesburg 5, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Johannesburg 58, Krabi 50: Johannesburg leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Johannesburg 56, Krabi 20: Johannesburg leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Johannesburg 62, Krabi 33: Johannesburg leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Johannesburg 55, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Johannesburg 52, Krabi 40: Johannesburg leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Johannesburg 42, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Johannesburg 18, Krabi 30: Krabi leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Johannesburg 58, Krabi 20: Johannesburg leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Johannesburg 72, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Johannesburg 55, Krabi 12: Johannesburg leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Johannesburg 28, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Johannesburg and Krabi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

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.

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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. Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJohannesburgKrabi
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageThai
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation1,753 m16 m
Main airportO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureJohannesburgKrabi
City population4,803,26230,499
People per km²2,922-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.