Arrivées de clients à Phuket par mois et par pays

The figures are guest arrivals at accommodation establishments in Phuket province — check-ins at hotels, resorts, guesthouses and other registered accommodation — as published by Thailand’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports, by nationality and by month. They are not airport arrivals and not visitor counts: a traveller who changes hotel is counted twice, a traveller in a private villa is not counted at all. The nationality is the one recorded at check-in; “Korea”, “USA” and the regional rows (“Middle East”, “East Europe”) are the ministry’s own labels. The tables show the ten largest foreign markets of each year — the set changes slightly from year to year — and the last column is the total for all foreign nationalities, 10 085 407 in 2025.

Russie is the largest foreign market in 2025 with 1 748 249 check-ins (+92.3% vs 2019) and a winter-leaning market: 49.4% of Russian arrivals fall in November–March, against 21.2% in June–August. The peak month was janvier (185 626), the low octobre (110 589), a 1.7× swing. The pattern was the same before 2020 — the pre-COVID peak month was janvier at 16.5% of the year — but the base is now roughly twice as large, and Phuket’s highest monthly occupancy of 2025 was in janvier (86.4%); the same calendar drives the high-season prices in the index.

Chine sent 1 285 894 check-ins in 2025 (−58.8% vs 2019, when it was the largest market). Its calendar follows Chinese holidays rather than Phuket’s dry season: the 2025 peak was juillet (150 214), the low juin (59 543); June–August carried 27.7% of the year and November–March 43.7%. Before the pandemic the strongest month averaged 11.3% of the year in janvier; over 2023–2025 it is décembre at 10.8%. Month to month the Chinese series is the most volatile of the six (coefficient of variation 28.8% across the twelve months of 2025) — visa rules, flight capacity and news cycles move it within a single quarter, which is visible in the 2025 table.

Inde is the third market with 1 029 588 check-ins in 2025, +356.5% vs 2019 — the fastest-growing of the six since then. Its seasonality is strongly seasonal (4.2× between décembre, 116 972, and août, 28 135): the Indian school holidays in May–June carried 18.3% of the year, October — the Diwali and Dussehra window — 8.5%, and November–March 47.8%. Indian demand is what fills Phuket in months that used to be the low season, and it is a large part of why the island’s seasonality curve has flattened since 2019.

The Royaume-Uni (762 815 check-ins in 2025, +125.9% vs 2019) peaked in novembre (91 169) with the low in mars (39 587); November–March took 41.8% and the British summer holidays, June–August, 25.3% — a moderately seasonal profile with two shoulders rather than one winter peak.

If you want the island at its quietest, the tables point to juin; if you want to avoid a specific crowd, look at that market’s low month rather than the island total — the Russian low (octobre) and the Chinese low (juin) do not coincide. Prices follow the same calendar with a lag: the Phuket Travel Price Index records hotel and villa medians on the 1st and 15th of every month, so the seasonality here can be read against the price series. For climate by month — rain days, sea state, sunshine — see the best-time-to-visit page; for the definitions behind every column and the annual totals, the statistics hub.