Crete vs Thailand

Outdoor dining area with white sail shade canopies over wicker chairs and tables, black support columns, and sea views beyond.

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

Crete 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

Crete compared with Thailand
Crete	Measure	Thailand
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
18 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	8
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.6
$45–$2113/night pp	Nightly rates	$29–$375/night pp (better)
5 of 18	Adults-only resorts	0 of 8
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
November–February	Rainy season	May–October, wettest September–October
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	November–April (the Gulf side, Koh Samui, runs on a different clock; wettest October–December)

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

Crete

Thailand

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Crete and Thailand
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Crete · high °F	60	61	64	69	76	83	85	85	81	74	68	62
Thailand · high °F	89	90	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Crete · rain (in)	3.5	3.0	2.2	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.8	2.7	2.3	3.0
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 Crete (north coast) and Phuket / Andaman coast: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.