Antigua vs Thailand

Aerial view of Hammock Cove Antigua with pools, beach loungers, wooden pier, and turquoise water with moored floats.

Woven cabana with turquoise daybed on white sand beach at Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket, with pool and palm trees beyond.

Antigua and Thailand, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Antigua compared with Thailand
Antigua	Measure	Thailand
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	8
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$187–$2456/night pp	Nightly rates	$35–$247/night pp (better)
7 of 9	Adults-only resorts	0 of 8
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk (better)
September–November	Rainy season	May–October, wettest September–October
December–April	Sweet spot	November–April (the Gulf side, Koh Samui, runs on a different clock; wettest October–December)
English (official)	Language	Thai (English widely used in tourist areas)
East Caribbean dollar – USD widely accepted	Currency	Thai baht (THB); cards common, cash for markets
230V (110V at some hotels), Type A/B plugs	Power	230V, Type A/B/C plugs (bring an adapter)
On the left	Driving	On the left
V.C. Bird International, St. John's (ANU)	Main airport	Phuket International (HKT)
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~20–24h from the US with one stop

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Antigua

Thailand

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Antigua and Thailand
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Antigua · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	87	87	88	88	87	85	83
Thailand · high °F	89	90	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Antigua · rain (in)	2.6	1.7	1.7	2.4	3.6	2.5	3.0	3.9	4.9	5.5	5.5	3.5
Thailand · rain (in)	1.4	1.2	2.3	4.3	13.5	8.7	10.2	10.5	15.5	12.1	7.1	3.0

Approximate climate normals for Island-wide and Phuket / Andaman coast: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.