Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
Krabi or Tulum?
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
- nature and the outdoors
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’s own page.
Choose Tulum for
- day trips
- nightlife
- shopping
What lies behind each score is written up on Tulum’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Tulum.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.
Wins on day trips 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
Tulum in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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.
Tulum has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.
Before you go
| Measure | Krabi | Tulum |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Thai | Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya |
| Currency | Baht (THB) | Mexican Peso (MXN) |
| Sockets | ABCF220 V, 50 Hz | AB127 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Left | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+7 | UTC-5 |
| Emergency number | Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199 | 911 |
| Elevation | 16 m | 5 m |
| Main airport | Krabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations | Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | - | 9 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Krabi | Tulum |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 30,499 | 33,374 |
| Museums within 10 km | 0 | 0 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 12 months | 12 months |
Where else could you go?
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