关键数据
截至 2026年9月- 对比海滩数
- 25
- 2026-09-05来源: Phuket Travels beach catalogue
- 沙滩总长度
- 40.4 km
- 2026-09-05来源: measured along the sand on OpenStreetMap imagery, September 2026, rounded to 100 m
- 有救生员
- 10: 迈考, 邦涛, 苏林, 卡马拉, 芭东, 卡伦, 卡塔, 小卡塔, 奈汉, 拉威
- 2026-09-05来源: Phuket Lifeguard Service coverage as reported by The Phuket News and Phuket.Net beach-safety articles, 2025
- 季风期也能游泳
- 3: 拉威, Laem Ka, Ao Yon
- 2026-09-05来源: Phuket Travels beach catalogue (exposure to the south-west monsoon)
- 没有公路可达
- 5: Pansea, Laem Sing, Freedom, Nui, Laem Ka
- 2026-09-05来源: Phuket Travels beach catalogue
- 红旗季(西海岸开阔海滩)
- May–September
- 2026-09-04来源: Open-Meteo (ERA5), 2015–2026, rough-sea-day normals 2015–2025 (marine from 2022)
- 海况最差的月份
- July, 13 rough days (median)
- 2026-09-04来源: Open-Meteo (ERA5), 2015–2026
- 海水温度范围
- 28.8–31.0 °C (January–May)
- 2026年8月来源: Open-Meteo Marine API, 2022-12–2026-08
旗帜、离岸流与季风
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 — 迈考, 奈扬, 奈通, 邦涛, 苏林, Laem Sing, 卡马拉, Kalim, 芭东, Freedom, 卡伦, 卡塔, 小卡塔, Nui, 奈汉 — take the swell directly; 'partly sheltered' coves sit behind a headland that takes the edge off; 'sheltered' beaches — 拉威, 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 (迈考, 邦涛, 卡伦, 芭东, 奈扬) 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 — 卡伦, 苏林, 迈考 — are the worst because the shore-break dumps close in and the channels are deep; long gentle beaches — 卡塔, 邦涛, 奈扬 — 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 — 迈考, 邦涛, 苏林, 卡马拉, 芭东, 卡伦, 卡塔, 小卡塔, 奈汉, 拉威 — in daylight hours, roughly 08:00 to 18:00, with the big resorts posting their own in front of their frontage on 迈考. 卡伦'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.
What is on the sand: the 2016 and 2025 clean-ups
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 苏林 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 苏林 has excellent swimming and no loungers, Banana has loungers and a parking fee, Nui is free and uncertain, and 芭东, 卡塔, 卡伦 and 卡马拉 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 芭东 (Freedom's path, Paradise's day package), Banana's car park, and the Sirinat National Park section of 奈扬 and 迈考, 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.
Which beach, by what you want
For swimming in the high season: any of them, and the clearest water is at 奈汉, 小卡塔, 奈通 and 苏林. For children: 奈汉, 卡塔, 邦涛, 卡马拉, 奈扬 and 拉扬 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, 奈通's northern rocks, Freedom's headlands and Laem Sing. For surfing: Kata Yai first, then Kalim, 卡伦's northern end, 奈汉 and 小卡塔, from May to October only. For quiet: 迈考, the middle of 邦涛, 拉扬, 奈通, and any of the no-road coves early in the morning. For a beach with a town: 芭东, 卡塔, 卡伦 and 卡马拉. For sunset: the whole west coast, but the Windmill Viewpoint above 奈汉 and the beach clubs of 邦涛 and 卡马拉 are where people go on purpose.
Two beaches are on the list for honesty rather than swimming: 拉威, 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 — 普吉镇 and 查龙 — which is why their pages point here.
Sea by month, and how to read the tables
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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