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Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City?

716 km apart, in Thailand and Vietnam. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Bangkok is the better pick in November to December; Ho Chi Minh City in March to April; either in January to February. May to October are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Bangkok 31° 2d 32° 4d 33° 4d 34° 7d 33° 17d 32° 16d 31° 21d 31° 20d 31° 24d 31° 18d 31° 7d 30° 2d
Ho Chi Minh City 31° 3d 32° 2d 33° 3d 34° 8d 33° 22d 31° 24d 31° 27d 31° 26d 30° 27d 30° 25d 30° 16d 30° 7d
Bangkok, fare from Bengaluru —₹29,552——————₹33,524₹30,592₹29,744—
Ho Chi Minh City, fare from Bengaluru —₹30,850₹27,510——————₹35,989—₹56,432
Pick eithereitherHo Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh CityneitherneitherneitherneitherneitherneitherBangkokBangkok

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

716 km as the crow flies, about 1h 47m in the air.Nonstop, about 13 a day · 6 airlines. By road, 884 km and about 11h 05m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.