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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 SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krabi or Myrtle Beach?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • families
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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, Myrtle Beach 84: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Myrtle Beach 38: Krabi leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi and Myrtle Beach are level on 20.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Myrtle Beach 42: Myrtle Beach leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Myrtle Beach 46: Krabi leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Myrtle Beach 50: Myrtle Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Myrtle Beach 18: Krabi leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Myrtle Beach 38: Myrtle Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Myrtle Beach 52: Krabi leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Myrtle Beach 30: Myrtle Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Myrtle Beach 28: Krabi leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Krabi
Best match
49match

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

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on families and shopping 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
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 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.

Myrtle Beach 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). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMyrtle Beach
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m8 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMyrtle Beach
City population30,49935,682
People per km²-591
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.