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How to read these tables

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.

All foreign check-ins together peaked in 12월 2025 (1,026,381) and bottomed in 6월 (692,365), a ratio of 1.5 between the busiest and the quietest month. November to March carried 44.6% of the year, June to August 23.5%. Before the pandemic the peak month averaged 12.2% of the year (1월, 2013–2019); over 2023–2025 it is 10.2% (12월). An even calendar would give each month 8.3%. Among the six markets charted above, 독일 has the highest winter share (50.5% in November–March), 인도 the widest swing between its busiest and quietest month (4.2×), 호주 the flattest calendar (1.4×), and 인도 the strongest growth since 2019 (+356.5%).

러시아: the winter-leaning market

러시아 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 1월 (185,626), the low 10월 (110,589), a 1.7× swing. The pattern was the same before 2020 — the pre-COVID peak month was 1월 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 1월 (86.4%); the same calendar drives the high-season prices in the index.

중국: holiday calendar, not weather

중국 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 7월 (150,214), the low 6월 (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 1월; over 2023–2025 it is 12월 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.

인도: two seasons

인도 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 12월, 116,972, and 8월, 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.

영국, 독일, 호주

The 영국 (762,815 check-ins in 2025, +125.9% vs 2019) peaked in 11월 (91,169) with the low in 3월 (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.

독일 (571,661, −10.5% vs 2019) is a classic winter market: 50.5% of German arrivals fall in November–March, the peak was 2월 (65,245) and the low 6월 (31,252), 2.1× apart. The Christmas–New Year weeks and the weeks that follow are the densest part of the German year on the island.

호주 (628,551, +30.3% vs 2019) has the flattest calendar of the six: 1.4× between 1월 (65,241) and 9월 (46,235). Australian school holidays fall in every quarter and Phuket is a short direct flight, so the market fills the shoulder months as much as the peak.

What it means for a trip

If you want the island at its quietest, the tables point to 6월; if you want to avoid a specific crowd, look at that market’s low month rather than the island total — the Russian low (10월) and the Chinese low (6월) 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.

The ten markets shown for 2025 are 러시아, 중국, 인도, 영국, 호주, 독일, 프랑스, 말레이시아, Middle East, USA. Every one of the twenty largest markets has its own page with the full annual series. 출처: 태국 관광체육부 지방 통계, 2026년 9월 조회; files refreshed 2026-09-05.