When are Thailand's summer and their winter months, and when is best to go to avoid monsoon weather?

Question

Im looking to travel to NZ, AUS and Thailand, so wondering when best time to go is? Possibly 2 months at each destination.

Answer 1

When you are suffering due to cold in UK/europe, that is the best time to travell and stay you targeted destinations.

Answer 2

Usually if it does rain it absolutely chucks it down, but generally speaking it last for an hour perhaps an hour & a half then stops. Much depends where you going to in Thailand, there are many good websites, why don't you just put your town/city in Thailand into a search engine followed by the word "Weather" and see what comes up.

Answer 3

I would avoid going to Thailand now because it is raining bombs right now. That is worse than any rain you will see. That is in the Bangkok area. AUS and NZ are usually stable places to go and the Oct Nov Dec is a prime season and very expensive. It is also very nice there climate wise. It does depend on what part of the Continent you are going to. Some areas are very tropical and you might not want to hit them in their summer months. Just think that AUS and NZ are sort of opposite seasons to north America. Check for specific Areas of Australia you want to visit and where you are going to spend most of your time to determine when is best to go.

Answer 4

Sounds like a fantastic trip.
I lived in Thailand for 12 years, so if you want more info, then mail me.
The monsoon season is nothing like you would expect. Warm heavy rain for about one hour per day, in the afternoon usually.
Monsoon season ends in October.
If you've got two months, I'd suggest one month in the south, on the beaches and islands, and one month in the mountains of the north, where I lived.

Wish I could go with you!

PS Don't worry about the coup. Here's a letter from a mate there, 1 hour ago.
'When my wife finally stopped singing and dancing around with our son at 7.45am this morning, she shouted out "Damn good!"
a) few people outside Thailand really know how Taksin has so cleverly usurped, benefitted from financial corruption instead of tackling it, bought up enormous tracts of his own country in areas of future development, bought foreign homes while barring foreigners from doing the same here, sued every major media outlet that criticised him and done NOTHING for the poor, and especially the hilltribes. Smiled at foreigners while restricting visas even further and pursuing policies which may ultimately be seen to be xenophobic. Full of promises and no delivery. Even his home city Chiangmai has waited a year in vain for his promised 53m baht to tackle flooding.
b) yes, he was democratically elected. The second time. Like another western premier we could name. At the first one he bought his way in with the "million baht per village" offer. That turned out to be a loan, not a gift of course, but it did the trick. Literally!
c) In my personal view this bloodless coup would not have taken place so smoothly, if at all, without the tacit consent of His Majesty. Maybe the writing was on the wall days ago? It is reported that Taksin took his whole family to the UN conference - unprecedented.
d) Dancing in the streets? Well there should be wherever thinking people are to be found (ie mainly in Bangkok). What we have in the streets here are lots of armoured personnel carriers and soldiers with rifles slung, looking a little bored and confused. But they don't mind having their photos taken as I proved on the way into the office this morning. Not allowed to talk, though, and many don't know what is happening.
e) Next? One of many responsible comments by General Sonthi was that the army would not hang on to power for very long. A coalition government, maybe with the promising young Democrat Abhisit to the fore, could be great!
f) We live in quite exciting times, but feel totally safe and very curious about the spin-off effects. Prayerfully this can only be good for Thailand!'

Answer 5

The monsoon season depends a bit on where in Thailand.
But generally June, July & August are wet.

Dec/Jan are the cool months but also the peak tourist season.
It starts to get hotter in March then April and May can be
quite hot. Stil the Songkran festivel in mid-April helps to
cool things off.

Answer 6

Thailand has 3 seasons.

Hot season (March to mid-June): 27-35°C (80-95°F)

Rainy season (June to October): 24-32°C (75-90°F)

Cool season (November to February): 18-32°C (65-90°F) but with less humidity.

The weather profiles for various cities can be found on the referenced web site.

Answer 7

April

Answer 8

Unfortunately the so called save season's have changed at least in southern Thailand. Quite sure are January through March.

Answer 9

High season kicks off in earnest on 15 December. Mid October to mid December would be best, if concerned about prices. On the other hand, the country Is generally so inexpensive, as long as you lie low for Xmas and New Years specifically, it should not be a problem if your plans dictate otherwise.

Answer 10

its pretty hot in thailand all the time but its now coming to the end of the wet season, still will get a shower most days for the next couple of weeks
im going in 3 weeks so hopefully itll b dry and hot by then

Answer 11

December March the best, but last year it rained a lot till january