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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 cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Krabi or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • prices

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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 Miguel de Allende 4: Krabi leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, San Miguel de Allende 40: Krabi leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, San Miguel de Allende 32: Krabi leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, San Miguel de Allende 50: Krabi leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, San Miguel de Allende 66: Krabi leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Krabi
49match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrabiSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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 Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageThaiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBaht (THB)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m1,900 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiSan Miguel de Allende
City population30,49969,811
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.