In general, Thailand has three seasons, which are:
1. Summer (hot season) – this season normally occurs from mid-February to mid-May. When I say hot, I mean humidly hot. It is hot all day and even at night. There is sometimes rain in the middle of the season which helps to cool us down a bit. The average temperature in this season is around 35–40 degrees Celsius. At its height the temperature in this season can reach more than 40 degrees Celsius, especially in the middle of April, when we have the Songkran water festival to cool us down.
2. Rainy season – this season begins around the middle of May and runs through until mid-October. During this season it rains and stops, rains and stops. It never rains all day, but you normally get very heavy bursts of rain that last a few minutes then stop. During the monsoon season it is important to use plenty of mosquito protection if you are spending time in the countryside.
3. Winter – this season begins in mid-October and lasts until February. This is not winter in the English sense where you’ll need a woolly jumper and hat. To me, it is like a dry late-spring or early summer in England. The average temperature at this time of year is between 16 and 23 degrees Celcius (Thai people would call this ‘cool’). Sometimes the temperature will drop lower than this, but very rarely has it ever gone below 8 degrees in my lifetime. In this season Thai people love to go travelling to the mountains or up to the North because the temperature is cooler than anywhere else and cold weather a new experience for them. Sadly, a lot of poor communities in the mountains have people who die in this weather as traditionally Thai people do not have ‘winter clothing’.
To summarise: Thailand is hot.
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