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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 beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Krabi or Nuevo Vallarta?

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
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • day trips
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Krabi leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Krabi leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Nuevo Vallarta 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 Nuevo Vallarta.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on day trips and families 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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrabiNuevo Vallarta

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.

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKrabiNuevo Vallarta
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 m3 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiNuevo Vallarta
City population30,4991,301
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.