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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 Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego
San DiegoThe Botanical Building, Balboa Park

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Diego by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krabi or San Diego?

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
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose San Diego for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on San Diego’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, San Diego 72: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, San Diego 62: San Diego leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, San Diego 50: San Diego leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, San Diego 48: San Diego leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, San Diego 77: Krabi leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, San Diego 60: San Diego leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, San Diego 96: San Diego leads by 41 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, San Diego 38: San Diego leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, San Diego 44: San Diego leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, San Diego 26: Krabi leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, San Diego 56: San Diego leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, San Diego 45: Krabi leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and San Diego.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

San Diego
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

San Diego in July

24 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
20 °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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiSan Diego
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m129 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiSan Diego
City population30,4991,386,932
People per km²-1,438
Museums within 10 km026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 month

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.