Bangkok or Barcelona: which climate?
Bangkok (Thailand) has a tropical savanna climate, whereas Barcelona (Spain) has a humid subtropical climate, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification.
The values compared here are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme. The same method and the same period apply to Bangkok and to Barcelona.
Bangkok is warmer than Barcelona by 13.2 °C in annual average: 28.2 °C against 15.0 °C.
Bangkok gets more rain than Barcelona: 1,229 mm per year against 619 mm.
Bangkok and Barcelona are warming at the same rate: about +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025 on both sides.
Bangkok averages 325 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 0 frost days per year; Barcelona averages 3 and 2.
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
| Indicator | Bangkok | Barcelona | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 28.2 °C | 15.0 °C | -13.2 °C |
| Average daily high | 32.5 °C | 18.5 °C | -14.0 °C |
| Average daily low | 24.9 °C | 12.0 °C | -12.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,229 mm | 619 mm | -610 mm |
| Sunshine / day | 10.0 h | 10.2 h | negligible |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 325 d/yr | 3 d/yr | -322 d/yr |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 0 d/yr | 2 d/yr | negligible |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 175 d/yr | 95 d/yr | -80 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 74 % | 78 % | +4 % |
| Average peak wind | 14.0 km/h | 15.5 km/h | negligible |
A difference is only reported when it exceeds the resolution of the data. ERA5 is a reanalysis on a grid of about 31 km: two nearby cities often fall in the same cell, and below half a degree you are reading the grid, not the climate.