we are leaving perth for phuket on sept 15th, and have been only in october,april & may previously. have been checking the internet religiously for weather and there have been thunderstorms reported nearly every day, we know its the wet season but is it really that bad at the moment.

Hi Colin & Sue! <BR> <BR>Lucky you - wish we were going this year instead of next. <BR> <BR>From info on the Phuket.com forum (someone asked about the weather recently), they have had only showers this month lasting from 10 min to 2 hours, with only a couple of days of solid rain. <BR> <BR>Hope it remains like this for your holiday. <BR> <BR>Cheers.

Try www.worldclimate.com for the rainfall statistics, very good source of info.

I returned from Thailand last week. I stayed three days in Phuket, the first day we got rain for two hours in the afternoon but we could enjoy two dry days (not really sunny). <BR> <BR>Good luck!

I was there about 3 weeks ago for 5 days. I too checked the weather before I went and it told me there were thunderstorms day and night. In fact it was sunny every day and rained (thunderstorms) late at night/early morning. <BR> <BR>