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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 Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Krabi or Sydney?

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

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

Choose Sydney for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi and Sydney are level on 85.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Sydney 50: Sydney leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Sydney 22: Krabi leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Sydney 55: Krabi leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Sydney.

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.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiSydney
Official languageThaiEnglish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199000
Elevation16 m6 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiSydney
City population30,4995,450,496
People per km²-449
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.