El Nino Watch

Thailand now (national flood and weather situation)

What is happening in the rest of Thailand right now: provinces by level, reported floods with their sources, measured heavy rain and river levels, TMD bulletins and travel disruptions.

Hazards

The Koh Samui watch only looks at the island. This page looks at the whole country, because a flood in Bangkok or on the Eastern Seaboard matters to you even when Samui is dry: flights, ferries, trains, supplies and family all go through the mainland.

It combines two very different kinds of information:

  • Measured: rain gauges and river level stations (ThaiWater, run by the Hydro-Informatics Institute) and the NASA VIIRS flood-water satellite layer. See Heavy-rain stations (ThaiWater gauges) and River level stations (% of bank height).
  • Reported: places where news outlets, agencies or official accounts say there is flooding, grouped into one incident per place with every source listed. See Reported incidents vs measured data.

Official declarations (DDPM disaster areas) and TMD weather bulletins are shown as they are published.

How to read it

Start with the banner: the national level (0 Normal to 4 Leave, see National and province levels (0-4)) and the headline. The map shows each province as a coloured dot at its centre (colour = province level, thick ring = declared disaster area), reported incidents as circles (bigger = more sources, colour = severity) and measured stations as small square or round icons.

The province table can be sorted by any column. The incident list can be filtered by province, category, severity, confidence and date; the filters are kept in the address bar so you can share the view.

Why it matters for Koh Samui

Most ways off the island go through the mainland (Don Sak / Surat Thani piers, Bangkok airports, the southern railway). A national flood can close them even when Samui itself is calm. See National situation vs Koh Samui and Mainland travel disruptions.

Sources

Related

ENSO status now

ONI (NOAA CPC)
+1.80 °C, JJA 2026 (previous +1.39 °C)
RONI (NOAA CPC)
+1.36 °C, JJA 2026
Nino 3.4 weekly (NOAA CPC / OISST)
+3.0 °C anomaly, week of 16 Sep 2026 (SST 29.6 °C)