Thailand travel tips

Best time to visit Thailand

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Thailand agrees on Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Nov, Dec.

PlaceJFMAMJJASONDIn words
BangkokNovember to FebruaryNovember to February
Koh Phi PhiNovember to April — the monsoon covers the other half of the year and the crossing gets rough with itNovember to April — the monsoon covers the other half of the year and the crossing gets rough with it
PhuketNovember to AprilNovember to April
Chiang MaiNovember to FebruaryNovember to February
Koh SamuiFebruary to April, and June to AugustFebruary to April, and June to August
KrabiNovember to AprilNovember to April
Koh PhanganFebruary to April, and June to AugustFebruary to April, and June to August
Koh TaoMarch to SeptemberMarch to September
AyutthayaNovember to FebruaryNovember to February
Chiang RaiNovember to February — cool, dry, and before the spring burning seasonNovember to February — cool, dry, and before the spring burning season
KanchanaburiNovember to February — dry, cool, and the waterfalls still full from the rainsNovember to February — dry, cool, and the waterfalls still full from the rains
Koh LantaNovember to AprilNovember to April
PaiNovember to FebruaryNovember to February

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Thailand

orange temples during daytimeBangkokThailandTemples, street food, and organized chaosThe isthmus from the viewpoint, with the village between a bay on each side — the one view that could only be Phi PhiKoh Phi PhiThailandLimestone walls straight out of the sea, a village with no cars in it, and the loudest beach in Thailandfive brown wooden boatsPhuketThailandThailand’s biggest island, from party beaches to quiet covesbird’s-eye view of white temple surround by treesChiang MaiThailandTemples, mountains, and Thailand’s digital nomad capitalwhite boat dock on seashore near green trees during daytimeKoh SamuiThailandCoconut palms, quiet beaches, and villas with a poolBeach with limestone cliffs and longtail boatsKrabiThailandLimestone cliffs rising straight out of the Andaman SeaRocky coast meets turquoise water and lush greenery.Koh PhanganThailandJungle, empty northern beaches, and the Full Moon Partytopless man sitting on cliff rock viewing Ko Nang Yuan isalnd, houses, and buildings under white and yellow skyKoh TaoThailandWhere half the world learns to divea very tall building with many spires on top of itAyutthayaThailandThe ruined capital of a kingdom that once dwarfed Londona group of people standing in front of a buildingChiang RaiThailandA white temple built like a hallucination, hill villages, and the corner where three countries meetpeople walking on train rail during daytimeKanchanaburiThailandThe bridge on the River Kwai, a seven-tier waterfall, and a war cemetery kept immaculateSunny beach in Ko Lanta, ThailandKoh LantaThailandLong quiet beaches and an old town on stilts, at the pace Thailand used to move atPai CanyonPaiThailandA mountain valley of hot springs, waterfalls and slow days