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Ko Pha-ngan in January
goodbusy · a good time to go · the coolest month of the year
The year in Ko Pha-ngan
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- JanJKo Pha-ngan in January: good, busy
- FebFKo Pha-ngan in February: good, busy
- MarMKo Pha-ngan in March: sweet spot
- AprAKo Pha-ngan in April: good
- MayMKo Pha-ngan in May: ok
- JunJKo Pha-ngan in June: sweet spot
- JulJKo Pha-ngan in July: good
- AugAKo Pha-ngan in August: sweet spot
- SepSKo Pha-ngan in September: sweet spot
- OctOKo Pha-ngan in October: avoid
- NovNKo Pha-ngan in November: avoid
- DecDKo Pha-ngan in December: ok, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 28°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 25°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 32°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 3 · 114 mm |
| Humidity | 78% |
| Sunshine | 10.3 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.6 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 28 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 28 °C, warm good |
| Crowds | 45 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Thong Sala, the pier town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in January
Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.
Ko Pha-ngan in pictures
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Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Daniel Nikitin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 28°C.
- Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 78%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type A and B and C and F plugs at 220 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Baht. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Thailand: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Ko Pha-ngan: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
January elsewhere
- Everywhere in January
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