Thailand vs Zanzibar

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

Thatched-roof pavilion with blue curtains surrounded by palm trees, flowering plants, and a small pool at The Palms Zanzibar.

Thailand and Zanzibar, 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

Thailand compared with Zanzibar
Thailand	Measure	Zanzibar
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	15 (better)
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$29–$453/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$93–$723/night pp
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 15
Low hurricane risk	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–October, wettest September–October	Rainy season	Long rains mid-March to May (April is the wettest month), short rains in November
November–April (the Gulf side, Koh Samui, runs on a different clock; wettest October–December)	Sweet spot	June to October and December to February

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

Thailand

Zanzibar

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Thailand and Zanzibar
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Thailand · high °F	89	90	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Zanzibar · high °F	89	90	90	87	84	84	83	83	84	86	88	89
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
Zanzibar · rain (in)	3.0	2.4	5.9	15.3	7.8	1.9	1.1	1.4	2.0	3.5	8.0	5.5

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