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Month 06 of 12

June

Wet on the Andaman coast and across the interior, and the Gulf islands sitting between their two seasons with nobody on them.

In June, train in Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Hua Hin. Think twice about Krabi.

June is the first full month of the pattern May started, and it is the cheapest honest trade the calendar offers. The rain is in the west and the middle of the country. The southern Gulf is in neither of its stretches, which is as close as Samui and Phangan come to a neutral month.

The thing to weigh in June is not the weather, it is the water. Krabi and Phangan are both boat-access places in their own way, and rough sea cancels crossings in a way rain does not cancel a session. A trip built around getting to Railay in June is a trip with a transport problem rather than a training problem.

7 regions

Inside the wet window

The months the region prints as its own wettest. Almost every camp trains under a roof, so this reads as heat, humidity and a quiet gym rather than as a cancelled session.
Phuketภูเก็ต

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Andaman coast

Camps

7

Chiang Maiเชียงใหม่

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Inland north and northeast

Camps

5

Paiปาย

Calendar

Inland north and northeast

Camps

1

Bangkokกรุงเทพฯ

Calendar

Central and eastern

Camps

11

Krabiกระบี่

Calendar

Andaman coast

Camps

4

Pattayaพัทยา

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Central and eastern

Camps

4

Isaan (Northeast)อีสาน

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Inland north and northeast

Camps

1

3 regions

Between the two

Named in neither stretch. The shoulder weeks, which is where the better trades usually are: the weather of the good months without the prices or the crowds of them.
Koh Samuiเกาะสมุย

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Southern Gulf

Camps

3

Koh Phanganเกาะพะงัน

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Southern Gulf

Camps

4

Hua Hinหัวหิน

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Upper Gulf

Camps

4

The month either side

Dates that can move

Most trips can move by a fortnight and a fortnight is the difference between two of these pages. Both neighbours are worth reading before the dates are booked rather than after.
  • The month before

    May

    The month the map flips. The southwest monsoon arrives and the Gulf becomes the dry side of the country.

  • The month after

    July

    The month where no week is better than any other week, which makes it the month to come for a block rather than for a holiday.