Bangkok or Bordeaux: which climate?
Bangkok (Thailand) has a tropical savanna climate, whereas Bordeaux (France) has a temperate oceanic 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 Bordeaux.
Bangkok is warmer than Bordeaux by 14.8 °C in annual average: 28.2 °C against 13.4 °C.
Bangkok gets more rain than Bordeaux: 1,229 mm per year against 778 mm.
Bangkok gets 10.0 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 9.1 hours in Bordeaux.
Bangkok has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, against +1.7 °C in Bordeaux. Bangkok is therefore warming faster than Bordeaux. Both trends are statistically significant.
Bangkok averages 325 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 0 frost days per year; Bordeaux averages 19 and 26.
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 | Bordeaux | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 28.2 °C | 13.4 °C | -14.8 °C |
| Average daily high | 32.5 °C | 18.0 °C | -14.5 °C |
| Average daily low | 24.9 °C | 9.2 °C | -15.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,229 mm | 778 mm | -451 mm |
| Sunshine / day | 10.0 h | 9.1 h | -0.9 h |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 325 d/yr | 19 d/yr | -306 d/yr |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 0 d/yr | 26 d/yr | +26 d/yr |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 175 d/yr | 126 d/yr | -49 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 74 % | 76 % | negligible |
| Average peak wind | 14.0 km/h | 14.9 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.