The consumer price index of Phuket province month by month since 1998, next to the Thailand and Southern-region indices of the same statistical system — year-on-year inflation, what prices have done since 2019 and which of the seven expenditure groups moved most. Figures are reproduced from the Trade Policy and Strategy Office, not estimated.
Source: Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce (Thailand), consumer price index 2023 = 100. Statistics · All sources
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| Year | CPI | Phuket | Thailand | South | Food | Housing | Transport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 82.3 | +5.7% | +3.8% | +4.2% | +8.4% | +1.6% | +6.4% |
| 2012 | 86.9 | +5.6% | +3.0% | +3.6% | +7.8% | +2.4% | +4.8% |
| 2013 | 89.0 | +2.4% | +2.2% | +2.2% | +3.1% | +1.3% | +2.4% |
| 2014 | 92.5 | +4.0% | +1.9% | +2.2% | +8.5% | +1.7% | 0.0% |
| 2015 | 93.1 | +0.7% | −0.9% | −1.3% | +4.1% | +3.5% | −11.5% |
| 2016 | 93.1 | 0.0% | +0.2% | +0.2% | +0.9% | −1.3% | −2.8% |
| 2017 | 93.8 | +0.8% | +0.7% | +1.0% | +0.4% | −0.7% | +3.9% |
| 2018 | 95.2 | +1.4% | +1.1% | +0.9% | +1.3% | +0.6% | +2.6% |
| 2019 | 95.3 | +0.1% | +0.7% | +0.2% | +0.6% | +0.3% | −1.4% |
| 2020 | 94.1 | −1.2% | −0.8% | −1.5% | +0.5% | −0.9% | −5.6% |
| 2021 | 95.1 | +1.1% | +1.2% | +1.7% | −0.2% | −0.3% | +6.9% |
| 2022 | 99.2 | +4.3% | +6.1% | +6.3% | +5.2% | +2.0% | +8.4% |
| 2023 | 100.0 | +0.9% | +1.2% | +1.1% | +1.9% | +0.8% | −2.3% |
| 2024 | 100.2 | +0.1% | +0.4% | +0.1% | +0.9% | −0.2% | −1.4% |
| 2025 | 100.2 | 0.0% | −0.1% | +0.3% | +1.7% | −0.2% | −2.8% |
CPI: annual average of the Phuket index (2023 = 100); the other columns are the change of the annual average on the previous year, %. Food, housing and transport are Phuket groups. 2026 is incomplete (7 months) and appears in the monthly table. Source: Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce (Thailand), consumer price index 2023 = 100.
| Group | Index | YoY | vs 2019 avg | Thailand YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All items | 103.7 | +3.7% | +8.8% | +1.9% |
| Food and non-alcoholic beverages | 110.9 | +8.0% | +19.3% | +2.0% |
| Apparel and footwear | 98.8 | 0.0% | +1.1% | −0.7% |
| Housing and furnishing | 99.4 | −0.1% | +1.0% | +0.1% |
| Medical and personal care | 101.5 | +1.0% | +6.1% | +0.4% |
| Transport and communication | 97.6 | +2.6% | +4.4% | +4.8% |
| Recreation and education | 101.6 | −0.1% | +1.4% | +1.0% |
| Tobacco and alcoholic beverages | 100.3 | +2.2% | +0.6% | −0.1% |
Phuket province, July 2026. vs 2019 avg: index vs the 2019 annual average. The fastest-rising group is marked. Source: Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce (Thailand), consumer price index 2023 = 100.
| Month | CPI | MoM | YoY | Food YoY | Thailand YoY | South YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 103.7 | −0.4% | +3.7% | +8.0% | +1.9% | +2.3% |
| June 2026 | 104.1 | +1.5% | +4.0% | +7.4% | +2.4% | +3.1% |
| May 2026 | 102.6 | −0.1% | +2.4% | +2.4% | +2.8% | +3.5% |
| April 2026 | 102.7 | +1.8% | +2.8% | +3.4% | +2.9% | +3.9% |
| March 2026 | 100.9 | +0.5% | +0.8% | +2.0% | −0.1% | +0.4% |
| February 2026 | 100.4 | +0.2% | +0.1% | +1.9% | −0.9% | −0.5% |
| January 2026 | 100.2 | −0.3% | −0.2% | +1.6% | −0.7% | −0.5% |
| December 2025 | 100.5 | 0.0% | +0.2% | +2.4% | −0.3% | −0.6% |
| November 2025 | 100.5 | +0.5% | +0.2% | +1.7% | −0.5% | −0.2% |
| October 2025 | 100.0 | −0.1% | −0.3% | +1.1% | −0.8% | −0.1% |
| September 2025 | 100.1 | −0.1% | −0.1% | +1.4% | −0.7% | 0.0% |
| August 2025 | 100.2 | +0.2% | −0.3% | +1.3% | −0.8% | −0.1% |
| July 2025 | 100.0 | −0.1% | −0.5% | +1.6% | −0.7% | −0.2% |
| June 2025 | 100.1 | −0.1% | −0.2% | +2.2% | −0.2% | +0.3% |
| May 2025 | 100.2 | +0.3% | −0.3% | +2.3% | −0.6% | 0.0% |
| April 2025 | 99.9 | −0.2% | −0.3% | +1.7% | −0.2% | +0.2% |
| March 2025 | 100.1 | −0.2% | +0.3% | +1.7% | +0.8% | +1.3% |
| February 2025 | 100.3 | −0.1% | +0.7% | +1.7% | +1.1% | +1.4% |
| January 2025 | 100.4 | +0.1% | +1.1% | +2.0% | +1.3% | +1.8% |
| December 2024 | 100.3 | 0.0% | +1.1% | +1.6% | +1.2% | +1.7% |
| November 2024 | 100.3 | 0.0% | +0.7% | +1.3% | +0.9% | +1.1% |
| October 2024 | 100.3 | +0.1% | +0.2% | +1.2% | +0.8% | +0.6% |
| September 2024 | 100.2 | −0.3% | +0.1% | +1.8% | +0.6% | +0.1% |
| August 2024 | 100.5 | 0.0% | +0.3% | +1.9% | +0.4% | +0.1% |
Phuket all-items index (2023 = 100); MoM: vs the previous month; YoY: vs the same month a year earlier. Newest first. Source: Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce (Thailand), consumer price index 2023 = 100.
The consumer price index (CPI) is the official measure of inflation in Thailand, compiled by the Trade Policy and Strategy Office (TPSO) of the Ministry of Commerce. Every month TPSO’s provincial offices collect the prices of a fixed basket of goods and services — the items a household actually buys, from rice, pork and eggs to petrol, electricity, bus fares, school fees, haircuts and cigarettes — and weight them by the share of household spending each item takes. The basket is grouped into seven expenditure groups: food and non-alcoholic beverages, apparel and footwear, housing and furnishing, medical and personal care, transport and communication, recreation and education, tobacco and alcoholic beverages. The all-items index is the weighted sum; the base year is 2023, whose average is set to 100, so a Phuket reading of 103.7 in July 2026 means the basket cost 3.7% more than the 2023 average.
TPSO publishes the index for the kingdom as a whole, for five regions and for each of the 76 provinces. The Phuket series on this page is the provincial general-set CPI (ดัชนีราคาผู้บริโภคระดับจังหวัด, province code 83), and it runs from January 1998; the national and Southern-region series come from the same system and the same base year. An index number says nothing about the level of prices — a Phuket index above the national one does not mean Phuket is dearer than Bangkok, only that Phuket prices have risen more since 2023. What the three series do show, month by month, is how fast prices are moving and which parts of the basket are moving them. Every figure on this page is the published index value; the year-on-year, month-on-month and cumulative rates are computed from those values at build time and re-computed whenever the file is refreshed.
Since 2011 (annual average) the Phuket basket has risen +26.0% against +20.1% for the country, and the two lines in the chart above rarely part company for long: the same fuel prices, the same rice and pork, the same electricity tariff and the same national policy decisions drive both. The differences are in the weights and in a few local markets — housing, prepared food and transport in a tourism economy — and they show up in the annual table. Across the 15 full years since 2011, Phuket’s annual average inflation was above the national rate in 8 of them. The hottest year for Phuket was 2011 (+5.7% on the annual average, +3.8% nationally) and the coolest 2020 (−1.2%).
The highest year-on-year reading of the period is November 2011 at +7.7%, and the lowest May 2020 at −3.5%. The two big events since then are both in the chart. In 2020 the pandemic pushed the index down: the longest spell of falling prices in the series ran from March 2020 to February 2021, 12 months, with the trough in May 2020 when fuel collapsed and the island’s restaurants and transport had no customers; the 2020 annual average was −1.2%. Then the 2022 energy shock: Phuket’s year-on-year rate rose to +5.6% in August 2022, the national rate to +7.9% in August 2022, and 2022 as a whole came in at +4.3% for Phuket and +6.1% for the country. Falling prices are not rare on the island: since 2011 Phuket has printed 45 months below zero in 10 spells, most recently January 2026. 2025 closed at 0.0% (+0.1% in 2024); over the 7 published months of 2026 the Phuket rate has averaged +1.9%, and in July 2026 it stood at +3.7% against +1.9% for Thailand and +2.3% for the Southern region — above the national rate in 10 of the last twelve months.
The all-items figure hides very different movements underneath. In July 2026 4 of the seven Phuket groups were up on a year earlier, 2 were down and one was unchanged. The fastest-rising group was food and non-alcoholic beverages at +8.0% (+2.0% for the same group nationally); the weakest was recreation and education at −0.1%. Food and non-alcoholic beverages — the largest group in any Thai household budget and the one a visitor meets three times a day — rose 8.0% year on year and stands +19.3% above its 2019 average; housing and furnishing, which carries rent, electricity, water and household goods, was at −0.1%, and transport and communication, where petrol and fares sit, at +2.6%. Core inflation — the index without raw food and energy, the part central banks watch — was +4.1%, while raw food and energy together ran at +2.4%.
Over the longer run the ranking is different. Since the 2019 average the group that has risen most in Phuket is food and non-alcoholic beverages, +19.3%, against +8.8% for the whole basket; the full table below carries every group’s index, its year-on-year rate, its change since 2019 and the national rate for the same group. The differences matter for a budget because a tourist’s basket is not a resident’s: a visitor spends a far larger share on prepared food, transport and recreation than the average Thai household whose weights define the index, so the food and transport rows are usually the better guide to what a holiday or a long stay has done than the all-items line.
The simplest way to read the index is in baht that you remember. A basket that cost 100 THB in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, cost 109 THB in Phuket in July 2026 (110 THB on the national index); a 1,000-baht day out has become a 1,088-baht one. Measured against July 2019 rather than the 2019 average the change is +8.5%. For a visitor paying in dollars, euros or pounds the baht price is only half the story — the exchange rate moves faster than the index, and a strong or weak baht can add or erase a year of inflation in a month — which is why the Phuket Travel Price Index on this site records hotel, villa, tour, transfer and daily-budget medians in USD on fixed dates, and why the exchange-rate series sits on its own page. The CPI answers a different question: what has happened to the baht prices of everyday goods and services on the island, independent of the currency you arrive with.
For someone staying a season or a year, the index is the number to put next to a rent negotiation or a school-fee letter. Landlords and schools on Phuket quote increases in round percentages; the provincial CPI is the published measure to hold them against, and the housing-and-furnishing row is the closest official proxy for the household side of living costs, even though the rent of a foreigner’s pool villa is not in the Thai basket. The food row is the one to watch for eating out, because prepared food — meals in and out of the home — is inside it. Month-on-month readings are noisy: in July 2026 the Phuket index fell 0.4% on June 2026, and single months move with fruit and vegetable seasons and the fuel price; the year-on-year rate is the figure to quote.
The file covers January 1998 to July 2026 for Phuket, 343 months, with the national and Southern-region all-items indices and the same groups for the same months, taken through the open API of the TPSO index database (the same figures that the ministry’s monthly inflation release prints). TPSO publishes the month’s index in the first week of the following month, so the latest month on this page is normally one to two months behind the calendar; the stats refresh runs on the 5th and re-reads the last fourteen months so that any revision by TPSO replaces the earlier reading. TPSO re-bases the index every few years and republishes the whole history on the new base, which is why the series here is continuous back to 1998 on the 2023 base rather than spliced from older bases. Two cross-checks run on every refresh: the year-on-year rates computed from the stored indices are compared with the rates TPSO publishes for the same months, and the annual averages computed from twelve months are compared with the ministry’s own annual figures; a file that fails either check is not published. On the 2026-09-05 build both passed.
The compiled series is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to phukettravels.com and the Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce (Thailand); the CSV below carries every month for the three series and every group. Source: Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce (Thailand), consumer price index 2023 = 100; retrieved September 2026. The tourism statistics that describe the demand side of the same economy are on the statistics hub, the airport series on its own page, and every external source with its URL is on the sources page.
+3.7% year on year in July 2026, the latest month published by the Trade Policy and Strategy Office (Ministry of Commerce) for Phuket province — against +1.9% for Thailand as a whole and +2.3% for the Southern region. The Phuket consumer price index stood at 103.7 on the 2023 = 100 base.
+8.8%: the Phuket CPI in July 2026 is 8.8% above its 2019 annual average, so a basket that cost 100 THB in 2019 costs about 109 THB now. The national index rose +10.0% over the same period and the Southern region +10.6%. Food and non-alcoholic beverages in Phuket are +19.3% on 2019.
The CPI cannot say — it measures how fast prices change, not how high they are, and every series is rebased to 2023 = 100. What it shows is that Phuket prices have risen more slowly than the national average since 2019 (+8.8% against +10.0%), and that Phuket’s annual inflation exceeded the national rate in 8 of the 15 full years since 2011. For price levels use the Phuket Travel Price Index medians on this site.
In July 2026 the fastest-rising of the seven CPI groups was food and non-alcoholic beverages at +8.0%, and the weakest recreation and education at −0.1%. Since the 2019 average the largest cumulative rise is in food and non-alcoholic beverages (+19.3%). Housing and furnishing was −0.1% year on year and transport and communication +2.6%.
From the Trade Policy and Strategy Office of Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce, which publishes a consumer price index for every province, every region and the kingdom on the same 2023 = 100 base; Phuket’s series starts in January 1998. TPSO releases each month in the first week of the next; this page is rebuilt from the ministry’s open API on the 5th of every month, re-reading the last fourteen months for revisions, and the full series is downloadable as CSV under CC BY 4.0.
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