When planning a holiday to the Land of Smiles to explore jungles, relax on beaches and partake in exhilarating water sports, it’s important to consider an age-old obstacle to holidaymakers’ fun – the weather. From Bangkok to Koh Samui , holiday hotspots have optimum windows of wonderful weather that treats Thailand's guests to largely sunny skies. Thailand is blessed with consistently mild weather conditions year-round, as well as appealing annual temperatures, but the typically tropical climate is not without heavy rainfall, humidity and winds.
Three key seasons break up the calendar: wet (ruedu fon), cool (ruedu nao) and hot (ruedu ron), dictating peak and off-peak tourist periods and creating shoulder seasons in between. Naturally, temperatures range in Thailand’s vast regions from north to south and coast to coast, and visitors should be mindful of the different climates and the monsoon season – often forcing Thai isles to close – that await on the southeast Asian holiday hotspot. Read more on Thailand travel : When is it? July to October Thailand’s ‘monsoon’ season takes place in the peak of the UK summer holidays and lasts for around four months.
Rainfall is frequent but inconsistent with short bursts on most days and at its heaviest in September and October. High humidity and onshore winds from the southwest monsoon across the Indian Ocean can create unpredictable weather conditions for holidaymakers visiting Thailand during the wettest months of the .