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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 Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Krabi or Monaco?

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 Monaco for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Monaco 70: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Monaco 3: Krabi leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Monaco 55: Krabi leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Monaco.

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.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMonaco
Official languageThaiFrench
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation16 m68 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMonaco
City population30,49938,857
People per km²-18,503
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.