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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
Rathausquai on the Reuss, Lucerne
LucerneRathausquai on the Reuss

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

Krabi or Lucerne?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Lucerne for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Lucerne’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, Lucerne 35: Krabi leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Lucerne 35: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Lucerne 58: Lucerne leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Lucerne 28: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Lucerne 92: Lucerne leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Lucerne 78: Lucerne leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Lucerne 66: Lucerne leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Lucerne 86: Lucerne leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Lucerne 46: Lucerne leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Lucerne 8: Krabi leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Lucerne 66: Lucerne leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Lucerne 46: Krabi leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Lucerne.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Lucerne
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around 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

Lucerne in July

24 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
141 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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.

Lucerne 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.

Lucerne's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Zurich Town / Ville..

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Lucerne: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Emmen (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiLucerne
Official languageThaiFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyBaht (THB)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation16 m436 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiLucerne
City population30,49986,234
People per km²-2,963
Museums within 10 km014
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.