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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 White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krabi or Thessaloniki?

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

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Krabi leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Thessaloniki 66: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Thessaloniki 50: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Thessaloniki 66: Krabi leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Thessaloniki 33: Krabi leads by 39 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiThessaloniki
Official languageThaiGreek
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation16 m6 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiThessaloniki
City population30,499309,617
People per km²-16,042
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.