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The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Phuket or Turin?

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 Phuket for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Turin for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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. Phuket 90, Turin 12: Phuket leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Phuket 66, Turin 81: Turin leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Phuket 35, Turin 78: Turin leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Phuket 72, Turin 50: Phuket leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Phuket and Turin are level on 80.
Day trips. Phuket 45, Turin 84: Turin leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Phuket 65, Turin 57: Phuket leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Phuket 22, Turin 68: Turin leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Phuket 42, Turin 58: Turin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Phuket 68, Turin 58: Phuket leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Phuket 20, Turin 65: Turin leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Phuket 82, Turin 40: Phuket leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Phuket and Turin.

Your match

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

Phuket
57match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Turin 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. Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhuketTurin
Official languageThaiItalian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation19 m239 m
Main airportPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhuketTurin
City population77,610841,600
People per km²6,4686,474
Museums within 10 km272
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.