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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
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Krabi or Montego Bay?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Krabi and Montego Bay are level on 50.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Montego Bay 28: Montego Bay leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Montego Bay 65: Krabi leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Montego Bay 48: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Montego Bay 20: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Montego Bay 25: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Montego Bay 38: Krabi leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Montego Bay 45: Krabi leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Krabi
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMontego Bay
Official languageThaiEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyBaht (THB)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation16 m19 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMontego Bay
City population30,499123,994
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.