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Has the climate in Phuket changed?

Phuket has warmed about 1.8°F since 1971.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Phuket's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Phuket's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Thailand — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
82.6°F
Recent
83.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
30 more days
1970s
194 / yr
Recent
224 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
20 more days
1970s
165 / yr
Recent
185 / yr
Wetter on average

Phuket's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

80°82°84°86°1971: 81.3°F1972: 81.8°F1973: 82.4°F1974: 82.0°F1975: 82.2°F1976: 82.0°F1977: 83.1°F1978: 83.2°F1979: 83.4°F1980: 83.0°F1981: 84.0°F1982: 83.2°F1983: 82.9°F1984: 82.5°F1985: 82.4°F1986: 82.3°F1987: 83.2°F1988: 82.6°F1989: 82.4°F1990: 82.9°F1991: 82.9°F1992: 82.8°F1995: 82.4°F1996: 82.2°F1998: 83.6°F1999: 82.0°F2000: 82.5°F2001: 83.0°F2002: 83.7°F2003: 83.2°F2004: 83.7°F2005: 84.4°F2006: 83.3°F2007: 82.9°F2008: 83.0°F2009: 83.3°F2010: 84.4°F2011: 83.6°F2012: 83.8°F2013: 83.7°F2014: 83.6°F2015: 83.8°F2016: 84.1°F2017: 83.3°F2018: 83.8°F2019: 84.5°F2020: 84.2°F2021: 83.8°F2022: 83.6°F2023: 84.7°F2024: 85.1°F2025: 83.5°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 27 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +1.5°F+1.5JFebruary: +1.4°F+1.4FMarch: +1.4°F+1.4MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +1.6°F+1.6MJune: +1.4°F+1.4JJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JAugust: +1.3°F+1.3ASeptember: +1.3°F+1.3SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +1.7°F+1.7NDecember: +1.4°F+1.4D

November has warmed the most — about 1.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Phuket, a weather station, inside the city. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →