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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
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Krabi or Palm 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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Palm Beach for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm 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, Palm Beach 82: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Palm Beach 47: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Palm Beach 32: Krabi leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Palm Beach 58: Krabi leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Palm Beach 12: Krabi leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Krabi
49match

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

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiPalm 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 m2 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiPalm Beach
City population30,4999,245
People per km²-322
Museums within 10 km04
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. 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.