Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur?
1,221 km apart, in Thailand and Malaysia. 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.
Month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Kuala Lumpur | 29° 17d | 30° 13d | 30° 20d | 30° 25d | 30° 23d | 29° 19d | 29° 17d | 29° 19d | 29° 21d | 29° 22d | 29° 27d | 29° 24d |
| Bangkok, fare from Bengaluru | — | ₹29,552 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ₹33,524 | ₹30,592 | ₹29,744 | — |
| Kuala Lumpur, fare from Bengaluru | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ₹23,659 | — |
| Pick | Bangkok | Bangkok | Bangkok | neither | neither | Kuala Lumpur | Kuala Lumpur | neither | neither | neither | Bangkok | Bangkok |
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
- Cost of living — Bangkok: very cheap, about 31% of the United States; Kuala Lumpur: very cheap, about 32% of the United States.
- Currency — Bangkok: Baht; Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian ringgit.
- Plugs — Bangkok: type A and B and C and F, 220 V; Kuala Lumpur: type G, 240 V.
- Driving — Bangkok: on the left; Kuala Lumpur: on the left.
- Travel advice — Bangkok: avoid all but essential travel to parts; Kuala Lumpur: avoid all but essential travel to parts.
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
1,221 km as the crow flies, about 2h 24m in the air.Nonstop, about 9 a day · Malaysia Airlines, Thai Airways International. By road, 1,580 km and about 18h 23m.
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.
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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.