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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 arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krabi or Ocean City, Maryland?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Krabi leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Krabi leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Krabi leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Krabi leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Ocean City, Maryland 22: Krabi leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Ocean City, Maryland.

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 prices with your weighting.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on families 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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
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.

Ocean City, Maryland 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). Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiOcean City, Maryland
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 m2 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiOcean City, Maryland
City population30,4996,844
People per km²-73
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.