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Bangkok or Phuket?

674 km apart, both in Thailand. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Bangkok is the better pick in November to February; Phuket in March to April. May to October are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Bangkok 31° 2d 32° 4d 33° 4d 34° 7d 33° 17d 32° 16d 31° 21d 31° 20d 31° 24d 31° 18d 31° 7d 30° 2d
Phuket 29° 7d 29° 4d 30° 6d 30° 14d 29° 24d 29° 20d 29° 19d 29° 20d 28° 23d 28° 25d 28° 20d 29° 9d
Bangkok, fare from Bengaluru —₹29,552——————₹33,524₹30,592₹29,744—
Phuket, fare from Bengaluru ₹37,801₹31,678——————₹25,884₹38,456₹31,118—
Pick BangkokBangkokPhuketPhuketneitherneitherneitherneitherneitherneitherBangkokBangkok

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Both are in Thailand, so the currency, the plugs and the travel advice are the same: type A and B and C and F plugs, driving on the left, paying in the Baht. Everything for Thailand.

Between them

674 km as the crow flies, about 1h 44m in the air.Nonstop, about 27 a day · 3 airlines. By road, 842 km and about 10h 43m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.