माई खाओ से आओ योन तक 25 बीच — 40.4 किमी रेत — उन्हीं बातों पर तुले हैं जो दिन तय करती हैं: लाइफ़गार्ड हैं या नहीं, बीच दक्षिण-पश्चिम मानसून के कितने सामने है, 2025 की सफ़ाई के बाद रेत पर क्या बचा है, वहाँ पहुँचते कैसे हैं और समुद्र कब शांत रहता है। समुद्र की हालत और तापमान मरीन रीएनालिसिस से हैं, किसी की राय से नहीं।
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| बीच | इलाका | लंबाई | लाइफ़गार्ड | रिप खतरा मई–अक्तू. | पहुँच | शुल्क | सबसे अच्छे महीने | किसके लिए अच्छा |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mai Khao Beach | माई खाओ | 11 km | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | December–March | quiet, sunset, nature |
| Nai Yang Beach | नाई यांग | 3 km | कोई नहीं | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, children, quiet, sunset |
| Nai Thon Beach | नाई थोन | 1 km | कोई नहीं | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, snorkelling, quiet, sunset |
| Banana Beach | नाई थोन | 150 m | कोई नहीं | moderate | सड़क | 100 THB | November–April | snorkelling, children, quiet |
| Layan Beach | लायन | 1.5 km | कोई नहीं | moderate | सड़क | मुफ़्त | October–April | swimming, children, quiet, sunset |
| Bang Tao Beach | बांग ताओ | 6 km | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, children, quiet, sunset |
| Pansea Beach | सुरिन | 300 m | कोई नहीं | moderate | पगडंडी 10 min | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, quiet |
| Surin Beach | सुरिन | 800 m | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, quiet, snorkelling, sunset |
| Laem Sing Beach | कमला | 300 m | कोई नहीं | high | पगडंडी 15 min / नाव | मुफ़्त | November–April | snorkelling, quiet |
| Kamala Beach | कमला | 2 km | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, children, snorkelling, sunset |
| Kalim Beach | पटोंग | 800 m | कोई नहीं | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–March | surfing, sunset |
| Patong Beach | पटोंग | 3.5 km | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, children, sunset, nightlife |
| Tri Trang Beach | पटोंग | 500 m | कोई नहीं | moderate | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | snorkelling, quiet, sunset |
| Paradise Beach | पटोंग | 150 m | कोई नहीं | moderate | सड़क | 200 THB | November–April | snorkelling, children, quiet |
| Freedom Beach | पटोंग | 300 m | कोई नहीं | high | पगडंडी 20 min / नाव | 100 THB | November–April | snorkelling, quiet |
| Karon Beach | कारोन | 3 km | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, quiet, sunset, surfing |
| Kata Beach (Kata Yai) | कता | 1.5 km | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, children, surfing, snorkelling |
| Kata Noi Beach | कता | 700 m | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, quiet, sunset |
| Nui Beach | कता | 200 m | कोई नहीं | high | पगडंडी 15 min | मुफ़्त | November–April | snorkelling, quiet |
| Nai Harn Beach | नाई हार्न | 700 m | हाँ | high | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | swimming, children, surfing, snorkelling, sunset |
| Ao Sane Beach | नाई हार्न | 100 m | कोई नहीं | moderate | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | snorkelling, quiet |
| Ya Nui Beach | नाई हार्न | 150 m | कोई नहीं | moderate | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | snorkelling, children, quiet |
| Rawai Beach | रावाई | 2 km | हाँ | low | सड़क | मुफ़्त | November–April | sunset, island boats |
| Laem Ka Beach | रावाई | 200 m | कोई नहीं | low | पगडंडी 15 min / नाव | मुफ़्त | all year | snorkelling, quiet, children |
| Ao Yon Beach (Cape Panwa) | पानवा | 500 m | कोई नहीं | low | सड़क | मुफ़्त | all year | swimming, children, quiet |
measured along the sand on OpenStreetMap imagery, September 2026, rounded to 100 m. Lifeguards: Phuket Lifeguard Service coverage as reported by The Phuket News and Phuket.Net beach-safety articles, 2025. Rip risk: exposure × island rough-sea normals (Open-Meteo (ERA5), 2015–2026).
Gentle or moderate gradient, clear water in the calm months, sand rather than rock at the waterline.
Shallow entry, shade or facilities within reach, and either lifeguards or shelter from the swell.
Beach breaks that work in the south-west monsoon (May–September) — the same swell that closes them to swimmers.
No beach clubs, few loungers, and either a long stretch of sand or an awkward way in.
Reached by path, boat or a walk round the rocks; none has lifeguards, and none is reachable by boat in the swell.
Phuket's beaches are almost all on the west coast, facing the Andaman, and the Andaman has two states. From October–April the north-east monsoon blows offshore, the sea is flat and clear, and every beach in this catalogue is a swimming beach. From May–September the south-west monsoon blows onshore, the marine reanalysis records a median of 13 rough-sea days in July (waves over the site's threshold, 4 years of data since the marine series began in 2022), and the open beaches turn into surf beaches with rip currents. The exposure column in this catalogue is the whole story in one word: 'open' beaches — माई खाओ, नाई यांग, नाई थोन, बांग ताओ, सुरिन, Laem Sing, कमला, Kalim, पटोंग, Freedom, कारोन, कता, Kata Noi, Nui, नाई हार्न — take the swell directly; 'partly sheltered' coves sit behind a headland that takes the edge off; 'sheltered' beaches — रावाई, Laem Ka, Ao Yon — face east or south-east with the island between them and the weather and swim all year. The rip-current label for May–October is derived from that exposure and the island's rough-sea normals, not typed per beach, which is why it is consistent and why it should be read as a rule, not a forecast.
The island runs 40.4 km of sand across the 25 beaches here, from Mai Khao Beach (11 km) to Ao Sane Beach (100 m). Lengths were measured along the sand on map imagery and rounded; they matter because the long beaches (माई खाओ, बांग ताओ, कारोन, पटोंग, नाई यांग) have room to walk away from the crowd and the short coves do not, and because a long open beach is where a rip has the most room to form.
Phuket records around 30–40 drownings a year, most of them between May and October and most of them foreign visitors who swam through a red flag; in 2025 at least fourteen foreign tourists had drowned by October. The mechanism is the rip current: water pushed onto the beach by the swell runs back out to sea through a gap in the sandbar as a narrow, fast channel that pulls a swimmer away from the shore in seconds and cannot be seen from the sand. Steep beaches — कारोन, सुरिन, माई खाओ — are the worst because the shore-break dumps close in and the channels are deep; long gentle beaches — कता, बांग ताओ, नाई यांग — are kinder but not safe. Red flag means no swimming. Yellow means caution. A rescue starts with not fighting the current: float, swim parallel to the beach, then in.
Lifeguards are a municipal service and cover 10 of the 25 beaches here — माई खाओ, बांग ताओ, सुरिन, कमला, पटोंग, कारोन, कता, Kata Noi, नाई हार्न, रावाई — in daylight hours, roughly 08:00 to 18:00, with the big resorts posting their own in front of their frontage on माई खाओ. कारोन's three kilometres are patrolled by just over twenty guards spaced along the beach. None of the small coves — Freedom, Paradise, Laem Sing, Banana, Nui, Ya Nui, Ao Sane, Laem Ka — has any, and none of the boat-only coves is reachable in the swell anyway. After dark there are no lifeguards anywhere. Jellyfish arrive after storms on the whole west coast; vinegar is the first aid and the beach-club staff, who are in the water daily, are the best source on the day.
पूरे द्वीप के मरीन सामान्य मान: प्रति माह तेज़ लहरों के दिनों की माध्यिका (2015–2025) और समुद्र की सतह के तापमान की माध्यिका (2022-12–2026-08)। आड़ वाला बीच द्वीप के आँकड़े से शांत रहता है; खुला बीच नहीं।
| महीना | समुद्र की हालत | उग्र दिन | समुद्र °C | बारिश मिमी |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | शांत | 0 | 28.8 | 37 |
| Feb | शांत | 0 | 29.1 | 21 |
| Mar | शांत | 0 | 29.8 | 73 |
| Apr | शांत | 0 | 30.7 | 183 |
| May | हल्की लहरें | 4 | 31.0 | 343 |
| Jun | हल्की लहरें | 8 | 30.1 | 275 |
| Jul | उफनता | 13 | 29.9 | 241 |
| Aug | उफनता | 9 | 29.9 | 270 |
| Sep | उफनता | 12 | 29.2 | 309 |
| Oct | शांत | 2 | 29.5 | 340 |
| Nov | शांत | 0 | 29.8 | 270 |
| Dec | शांत | 0 | 29.0 | 113 |
स्रोत: Open-Meteo (ERA5), 2015–2026 (rough-sea days, rain); Open-Meteo Marine API (sea-surface temperature). Sea state thresholds: calm ≤ 2 rough days, some swell 3–8, rough > 8.
Median of the monthly mean sea-surface temperature per calendar month, 2022-12–2026-08 · Open-Meteo Marine API
Days with waves above the rough threshold, median per calendar month; rough months in the figure colour · Open-Meteo (ERA5), 2015–2026
The facilities columns in this catalogue reflect two rounds of enforcement. In 2014–2016 the military government cleared the beach clubs, restaurants and lounger operators that had colonised the sand, then allowed licensed loungers back in zones covering a tenth of each beach. In 2025 the vendors, chairs and loungers that had crept back onto सुरिन were moved across the beach road, leaving it bare; late in 2025 Banana Beach went the other way, gaining a car park, a beach club and numbered sunbeds; and in 2026 the Royal Forest Department ordered the beach club at Nui Beach removed from protected forest and the minister stated that no one may charge entry there. So सुरिन has excellent swimming and no loungers, Banana has loungers and a parking fee, Nui is free and uncertain, and पटोंग, कता, कारोन and कमला have their licensed zones. The beach pages carry the detail and the date.
Entry fees are rare and small: 22 of the 25 beaches are free to walk onto. The exceptions are the privately accessed coves near पटोंग (Freedom's path, Paradise's day package), Banana's car park, and the Sirinat National Park section of नाई यांग and माई खाओ, where the 200 THB foreign-adult park fee applies inside the headquarters boundary and not on the village beach. Loungers, where they exist, are rented by the day from the licensed operators; a public beach in Thailand is public below the high-water mark and no hotel can close it.
For swimming in the high season: any of them, and the clearest water is at नाई हार्न, Kata Noi, नाई थोन and सुरिन. For children: नाई हार्न, कता, बांग ताओ, कमला, नाई यांग and लायन for the gentle gradients and facilities, Ao Yon and Laem Ka for calm water in the wet season. For snorkelling from the sand: Ya Nui, Ao Sane, Banana, नाई थोन's northern rocks, Freedom's headlands and Laem Sing. For surfing: Kata Yai first, then Kalim, कारोन's northern end, नाई हार्न and Kata Noi, from May to October only. For quiet: माई खाओ, the middle of बांग ताओ, लायन, नाई थोन, and any of the no-road coves early in the morning. For a beach with a town: पटोंग, कता, कारोन and कमला. For sunset: the whole west coast, but the Windmill Viewpoint above नाई हार्न and the beach clubs of बांग ताओ and कमला are where people go on purpose.
Two beaches are on the list for honesty rather than swimming: रावाई, which is a longtail shore and a seafood market and the departure point for the southern islands, and Kalim, which is a reef and a surf break. And two areas the site tracks have no beach at all — फुकेत टाउन and चालोंग — which is why their pages point here.
The sea-by-month table is island-wide: one marine reanalysis point off the west coast, median rough-sea days and median rainfall per calendar month over 2015–2025 (marine fields from 2022), and median sea-surface temperature from 2022-12 to 2026-08. The sea is warm in every month — 28.8 °C in January to 31.0 °C in May — so temperature never decides a swim on Phuket; the sea state does. A sheltered beach is calmer than the island figure in every month; an open beach is exactly the island figure. Each beach page applies that rule month by month. The best-months column is the beach's own calm season: November to April on the open west coast, all year on the sheltered east and south-east coves, October added where a headland calms the tail of the monsoon.
Nothing on this page is measured by us on the beach. Lengths are map measurements, lifeguard coverage is the municipal service as reported by the local press in 2025, facilities are as reported after the clean-ups, and the sea data is reanalysis. Where a source is uncertain — the Paradise Beach fee, the Laem Ka gate, Nui's structures — the catalogue says so rather than picking a number. The hotels, villa rents and airport transfer for the area behind each beach are on the area pages, priced from the index.
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There is no single answer, and this catalogue does not rank. For clear-water swimming in the high season the residents' answers are नाई हार्न, Kata Noi, नाई थोन and सुरिन; for families कता, बांग ताओ, नाई हार्न and नाई यांग; for quiet, माई खाओ and लायन; for a beach with a town behind it, पटोंग, कता and कारोन. The table above compares all 25 on length, lifeguards, rip risk, access, fee and best months, with the sources on each beach page.
From October–April on every beach. The marine normals put rough-sea days in May–September, peaking in July (13 rough days, median), when the open west-coast beaches fly red flags on rough days. The 3 sheltered beaches — रावाई, Laem Ka, Ao Yon — face away from the south-west monsoon and are swimmable all year; the partly sheltered coves are a judgement on the day.
10 of the 25: माई खाओ, बांग ताओ, सुरिन, कमला, पटोंग, कारोन, कता, Kata Noi, नाई हार्न, रावाई, in daylight hours (about 08:00–18:00), per the municipal Phuket Lifeguard Service as reported in 2025; the माई खाओ resorts post their own. None of the small or boat-only coves has any, and there are no lifeguards anywhere after dark. In an emergency call 1669.
Red means the sea is closed to swimming because of rip currents or surf; yellow means caution. Phuket records around 30–40 drownings a year, most between May and October and most involving visitors who swam past a red flag. Caught in a rip: do not swim against it — float, swim parallel to the beach until the pull stops, then in. The steep beaches (कारोन, सुरिन, माई खाओ) are the most dangerous because the shore-break dumps close in.
The ones that face away from the south-west monsoon: रावाई, Laem Ka, Ao Yon — Ao Yon on the पानवा cape is the standby, calm and shallow with restaurants; Laem Ka near रावाई is a cove through private land; रावाई itself is calm but a boat shore, not a swim. लायन, at the sheltered northern end of बांग ताओ, is often swimmable when सुरिन and कता are flagged, without a lifeguard post. Everything else is a red-flag question on the day.
22 of 25 are free to walk onto. Freedom Beach charges 100–200 THB on its private path (or a longtail per boat), Paradise Beach sells a day package of about 200 THB (its policy changed in 2025), Banana Beach's new car park costs about 100 THB, and the Sirinat National Park headquarters section of नाई यांग charges the 200 THB foreign park fee — the village beach does not. Loungers are rented by the day everywhere they exist. Nui Beach's former entrance fee was ruled unlawful in 2026.
Between 28.8 °C (January) and 31.0 °C (May) as monthly medians from Open-Meteo Marine API data, 2022-12 to 2026-08 — warm enough to swim in every month. The sea state, not the temperature, decides whether a beach is swimmable; Nai Harn Beach, for example, is a clear calm bay in February and a surf beach in August.
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