Ideal weather days in Phuket
The best time to visit Phuket for warm, dry weather is November and December, with 9 to 11 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Phuket's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in November and December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Phuket, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot229
- Too wet149
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Phuket averaged 48 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Thailand, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December and January (up to 16 a month, 77 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 229 a year, mostly in January to June. Another 149 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in May to November. A day can fail more than one test.
Phuket weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34 °C 93 °F | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9 of 31 |
| February | 36 °C 96 °F | 4 | 0 | 14 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 36 °C 97 °F | 4 | 0 | 14 | 1 of 31 |
| April | 36 °C 96 °F | 8 | 0 | 10 | 1 of 30 |
| May | 34 °C 93 °F | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 93 °F | 15 | 0 | 2 | 2 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 92 °F | 19 | 0 | 1 | 3 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 24 | 0 | 3 | 1 of 31 |
| September | 33 °C 91 °F | 22 | 0 | 1 | 3 of 30 |
| October | 33 °C 91 °F | 17 | 0 | 2 | 7 of 31 |
| November | 33 °C 91 °F | 16 | 0 | 3 | 9 of 30 |
| December | 34 °C 92 °F | 8 | 0 | 8 | 11 of 31 |
| Year | 159 | 0 | 70 | 48 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 58 warm, dry days
- 2024 40 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Phuket for good weather?
The best time to visit Phuket for warm, dry weather is November and December, with 9 to 11 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December and January (up to 16 a month, 77 a year). Counted from measured days at Phuket station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Phuket?
On average 159 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (24 rain days), the driest January (3).
How many sunny days does Phuket get a year?
About 70 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in March (14).
How warm does Phuket get?
The median daily high ranged from 33 °C (91 °F) in September to 36 °C (97 °F) in March.
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Source: Phuket weather station (48564099999), 1 km from the centre of Phuket, 4 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.