Best Time To Visit Phu Quoc

February is the driest month of the year, taking well under a tenth of what falls in August. March is nearly as dry.

These are the best weeks for the boat trips out to the An Thoi islands, when the sea is calm and the water is clear.

April is the hottest month of the year and the point at which the rain returns, so it is the ragged edge of the good window rather than part of it.

May is when the southwest monsoon settles in and the rain climbs steeply. Prices fall away with it.

June and July are properly wet, with rain arriving in long spells rather than short bursts.

Long Beach faces west, straight into the monsoon, so the sunset side of the island is the exposed one now. Fly in rather than taking the Rach Gia or Ha Tien ferries if the sea state matters to you.

August is the wettest month of the year and September is close behind. These are the two months to avoid outright.

Phu Quoc is roughly twice as wet as northern Vietnam across the year, and the gap is widest now. Hanoi and Ninh Binh are both markedly drier in these weeks, though neither is dry.

October is still wet but past the peak, and November drops away sharply as the monsoon retreats.

Late November is the best value of the year, sitting just ahead of the dry season with low-season pricing still in place.

Phu Quoc's dry season lines up with northern Vietnam's cool, dry months, so a Hanoi and Phu Quoc trip works well between December and March.

It does not work in summer. From June to September Phu Quoc is at its wettest while the north is merely hot, so the two halves of a circuit are not interchangeable. Dalat is the useful alternative then, not because it is dry but because it never gets hot.