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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
Hanok houses in Bukchon, Seoul
SeoulHanok houses in Bukchon

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seoul by 거열 박, Pexels License.

Krabi or Seoul?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Seoul for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Seoul’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, Seoul 18: Krabi leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Seoul 75: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Seoul 77: Seoul leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Seoul 80: Seoul leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Seoul 87: Seoul leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Seoul 85: Seoul leads by 65 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Seoul 50: Krabi leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Seoul 63: Seoul leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Seoul.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Seoul
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and getting around 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

Seoul in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
422 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
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). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiSeoul
Official languageThaiKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyBaht (THB)Won (KRW)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation16 m38 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre162 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-18 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiSeoul
City population30,4999,668,465
People per km²-15,973
Museums within 10 km081
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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.