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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
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krabi or Luang Prabang?

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

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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, Luang Prabang 14: Krabi leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Luang Prabang 42: Krabi leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Luang Prabang 8: Krabi leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Luang Prabang 68: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Luang Prabang 35: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Luang Prabang 38: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Luang Prabang 50: Luang Prabang leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Luang Prabang 38: Luang Prabang leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Luang Prabang 18: Luang Prabang leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Luang Prabang 60: Krabi leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Luang Prabang.

Your match

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

Krabi
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiLuang Prabang
Official languageThaiLao
CurrencyBaht (THB)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation16 m305 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiLuang Prabang
City population30,49953,792
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.