Which parts of Thailand are driest in March?

Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Krabi and Hua Hin are inside the dry window in March.

Is there burning season smoke in Thailand in March?

Chiang Mai, Pai and Isaan (Northeast) are inside the burning season in March, when fields and forest are cleared inland and air quality drops in the weeks the weather is otherwise at its best. It is felt in a hard session rather than on a beach day, and it is the reason a dry reading inland in March is not the recommendation it looks like.

Month 03 of 12

March

Dry everywhere on paper, and the single worst month of the year to train inland.

In March, train in Krabi, Phuket, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. Think twice about Chiang Mai, Pai and Isaan (Northeast).

March is the month the chart lies hardest. Rainfall is low across the whole country, the coasts are genuinely at their best, and the three inland regions are in the thick of the burning season while reading as dry.

The call is simple and it is binary. The coast in March is as good as the coast gets. Chiang Mai, Pai and Isaan in March mean training twice a day in air that makes training twice a day a bad idea, and no amount of a good room rate changes that arithmetic.

5 regions

Inside the dry window

The months the region prints as its own driest stretch. Comfortable rather than guaranteed, and in the busiest regions it is also the most expensive and the hardest to book.

Phuketภูเก็ต

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Andaman coast

Camps

Koh Samuiเกาะสมุย

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Southern Gulf

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Koh Phanganเกาะพะงัน

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Southern Gulf

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Krabiกระบี่

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Andaman coast

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Hua Hinหัวหิน

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Upper Gulf

Camps

5 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.

Chiang Maiเชียงใหม่

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Inland north and northeast

Burning season

roughly February to April

Camps

Paiปาย

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Inland north and northeast

Burning season

roughly February to April

Camps

Bangkokกรุงเทพฯ

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Central and eastern

Camps

Pattayaพัทยา

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Central and eastern

Camps

Isaan (Northeast)อีสาน

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Inland north and northeast

Burning season

roughly February to April

Camps

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.

All twelve months

The month before
February
The last month the whole country works, and the month the air in the north starts to go.
The month after
April
The hottest month of the year, Songkran in the middle of it, and the smoke still sitting inland.