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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 Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Krabi or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Mexico City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Krabi leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Mexico City 50: Krabi leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Mexico City 50: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 56 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Mexico City 75: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Mexico City 40: Krabi leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMexico City
Official languageThaiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBaht (THB)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m2,240 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMexico City
City population30,4999,209,944
People per km²-6,202
Museums within 10 km0108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
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. 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.