Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast vs Thailand

White resort buildings overlook multiple blue pools with palm trees and loungers at Steigenberger Resort Alaya Marsa Alam, with the Red Sea beyond.

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast14 resorts · ★ 4.7 average

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

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast 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

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast compared with Thailand
Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast	Measure	Thailand
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
14 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	8
★ 4.7 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.6
$62–$249/night pp	Nightly rates	$35–$247/night pp (better)
4 of 14	Adults-only resorts	0 of 8
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
None to speak of	Rainy season	May–October, wettest September–October
October–May; high summer is very hot but dry, and the sea is at its warmest	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

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast

Thailand

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast and Thailand
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Thailand · high °F	89	90	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast · rain (in)	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
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 Hurghada and Phuket / Andaman coast: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.