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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 Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Krabi or Puerto Plata?

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 Puerto Plata for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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, Puerto Plata 80: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Puerto Plata 40: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Puerto Plata 35: Puerto Plata leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Puerto Plata 38: Puerto Plata leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Puerto Plata 68: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Puerto Plata 48: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Puerto Plata 57: Puerto Plata leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Krabi and Puerto Plata are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Puerto Plata 30: Puerto Plata leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Puerto Plata 64: Krabi leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Puerto Plata 18: Puerto Plata leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Puerto Plata 35: Krabi leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Puerto Plata.

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.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Plata 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). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiPuerto Plata
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m34 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiPuerto Plata
City population30,499-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.