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The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Krabi or Lima?

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 Krabi for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Lima for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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. Krabi 87, Lima 42: Krabi leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Lima 88: Lima leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Lima 66: Lima leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Lima 62: Lima leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Lima 45: Krabi leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Lima 34: Krabi leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Lima 42: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Lima 35: Lima leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Lima 52: Lima leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Lima 70: Krabi leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Lima 53: Lima leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Lima 25: Krabi leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Lima.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Krabi
49match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Lima
51match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiLima
Official languageThaiSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyBaht (THB)Sol (PEN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199111 or 911
Elevation16 m154 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiLima
City population30,4999,943,800
People per km²-3,721
Museums within 10 km047
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.