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For interactive information, please refer to our
animated Thai weather map -- an interactive map to the weather situation
in Thailand with detailed monthly statistics on rainfall, minimum and
maximum temperature and number of rainy days in a month. Otherwise, for
more detailed information, including climatic charts, please read on.
Thailand can best be described as tropical and humid for the majority of
the country during most of the year. The area of Thailand north of
Bangkok has a climate determined by three seasons whilst the southern
peninsular region of Thailand has only two.
In northern Thailand the seasons are clearly defined. Between November
and May the weather is mostly dry, however this is broken up into the
periods November to February and March to May. The later of these two
periods has the higher relative temperatures as although the northeast
monsoon does not directly effect the northern area of Thailand, it does
cause cooling breezes from November to February.
The other northern season is from May to November and is dominated by
the southwest monsoon, during which time rainfall in the north is at its
heaviest.
The southern region of Thailand really has only two seasons -- the wet
and the dry. These seasons do not run at the same time on both the east
and west side of the peninsular. On the west coast the southwest monsoon
brings rain and often heavy storms from April through to October, whilst
on the east coast the most rain falls between September and December.
Overall the southern parts of Thailand get by far the most rain with
around 2,400 millimetres every year, compared with the central and
northern regions of Thailand, both of which get around 1,400 millimetres.
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