No top-10 listicles. No paid placements. Just real notes on what each city is actually like - the good neighborhoods, the bad transit, and the food worth the line.
October turns the Bangkok year – wet first half, cool season arriving in the second – with the Vegetarian Festival in Yaowarat and the best value week of the year at the end.
Bangkok in October: The Rains Retreat and the Vegetarian Festival Takes Yaowarat Read More »
September brings 336mm of rain to Bangkok – fourteen times the January figure – along with the most frequent flooding and the lowest hotel rates and visitor numbers of the year.
Bangkok in September: The Wettest Month and the Cheapest Read More »
August builds the rain to 227mm but drops Bangkok to 31C – the coolest daytime figure since January – with Mothers Day on the 12th and low-season rates throughout.
Bangkok in August: Mothers Day, Green City and the Coolest Days Since January Read More »
July brings Asahna Bucha and Khao Phansa – candle processions, the start of the three-month rains retreat and a nationwide alcohol ban – plus the first summer visitors and 190mm of rain.
Bangkok in July: Buddhist Lent Begins, and the Bars Close for It Read More »
June sits in the quiet gap after Songkran and before the European summer – the monsoon in a predictable afternoon rhythm, the haze gone, and hotel rates near their annual floor.
Bangkok in June: Clear Air, Predictable Rain and the Cheapest Rooms of the Year Read More »
May brings the monsoon to Bangkok – 217mm of rain in concentrated afternoon downpours, air finally clear of haze, low-season prices, and streets that flood within half an hour.
Bangkok in May: The Rains Break, the Haze Clears and the Streets Flood Read More »
April is Bangkok at 35C and the month of Songkran on the 13th to 15th – a city-wide water fight you cannot stay dry through, and the highest road-accident period of the Thai year.
Bangkok in April: Songkran, and the Hottest Month of the Year Read More »
March ends the cool season in Bangkok, brings the PM2.5 haze to its annual worst – far worse in the north – and starts the long shoulder season with rates easing all month.
Bangkok in March: The Heat Arrives, the Haze Peaks and Prices Start Falling Read More »
February is the driest month in Bangkok and the last comfortable one – Chinese New Year fills Yaowarat on the 6th, and the PM2.5 season reaches its worst stretch.
Bangkok in February: Chinese New Year in Yaowarat, and the Worst of the Haze Read More »
January is the driest, least humid month in Bangkok and the most expensive – the one time long temple and market days are comfortable, and the start of the PM2.5 season.
Bangkok in January: The Best Weather of the Year, and the Haze Nobody Warns You About Read More »
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25°C 2 wet days
Average highs and wet days from WMO 1991–2020 climate normals where available, otherwise five years of ERA5 reanalysis.
