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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 steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Krabi or New Orleans?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New Orleans for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Krabi leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, New Orleans 42: Krabi leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Krabi and New Orleans are level on 55.
Getting around. Krabi 30, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, New Orleans 40: Krabi leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, New Orleans 25: Krabi leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrabiNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiNew Orleans
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m-2 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiNew Orleans
City population30,499383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.