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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
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Krabi or Samarkand?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Krabi leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Samarkand 14: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Samarkand 40: Krabi leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Samarkand 30: Krabi leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Samarkand 58: Samarkand leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Samarkand 24: Samarkand leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Samarkand 32: Krabi leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Samarkand.

Your match

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

Krabi
Best match
49match

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

Samarkand
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiSamarkand
Official languageThaiUzbek
CurrencyBaht (THB)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation16 m702 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiSamarkand
City population30,499546,303
People per km²-5,058
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.