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Where to go in Southeast Asia in December

Warm and mostly dry in December, by typical daytime highs: Yangon at 33°C, Bangkok at 32°C, Trat at 32°C and Lampang at 31°C. The cheapest trip below that stops in one of them is €164 per person with a cabin bag, through Bangkok, leaving Medan on Thu 10 Dec. That trip's oldest price was seen 8 days ago and may be higher now. €138 per person with a cabin bag buys 3 flights through 4 countries in December: from Medan on Wed 2 Dec. Each trip below leaves between Tue 1 Dec and Thu 31 Dec, from anywhere in Southeast Asia. That trip's oldest price was seen 4 days ago and may be higher now. One city per country, 2–4 nights in each, non-stop flights only. Updated every night.

Plan your own December trip

Where do you start?

Type a city or a country, or pick “Anywhere in Southeast Asia” for the cheapest start. From Australia, Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, India, the Gulf or Hong Kong, type your home airport (e.g. Brisbane or MAN): trips start with a flight from the nearest of 14 big airports there (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and more), and the budget covers it.

Then fly on toFrom Vancouver, Los Angeles or San Francisco, or an airport near them: a few places in Southeast Asia, one long flight on to Europe, a few places there, and home. Three long-haul tickets, all in the budget.

Leavingbetween 1–31 Dec

WhenAnytimeA windowFixed dates

Leave and come backto

Give or take

First flight betweenand

In the next

Prices go up to 12 Feb; later dates are added daily.

Trip3+ places, 2–4 nights each

Trip length

Trip length, first flight to lastto

EndsAnywhere

Where it endsBack homeAnywhereIn a city

Total for all flightsUp to €300

Budget for all flights Only a small under-seat bag (leaves out the cabin bag)Only trips low for their dates (under what their flights usually cost)Leave it empty for no cap. Back home counts the flight home. With a cabin bag, each flight counts its airline's usual price for one, or €60 where we don't know it (€65 on a long flight).

Travellers1 adult

TravellersEvery price, the budget included, is for all of you.

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Set every detail: nights in each, kinds of place, countries, visasnights, places, countries +2 optional

Trip shape

Places to visitto3 or more. Your start and a finish city don't count.

Nights in each placetoAny: from 1 up to 14.

Also start from cities nearbyWhen you start from one city: trips can start from any city this close (straight line), and Back home can end at any of them.Last flight byEmpty: any day.Cities in each countryThe country with most of the trip can have more.Return to a country already on the tripCan a trip leave a country and come back to it later? Never keeps each country's cities in one go. Your start country counts too.

Which places

Places you must visit (up to 3)

Kind of placesCapitalsIslandsBeachesMountainsLakesOld townsSmall towns From our notes on each city. Start, return and must-visit cities don't count. Mixing them up compares the kinds you pick, or capitals, islands and beaches.

Mix them up: no two of the same kind in a row

Only these countries

Most of the trip in one countryat leastcities there

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You Up to, for one flight

Flight timesandLocal time at each airport. We don't know every flight's times: a flight whose time we don't know stays in, marked for you to check.

Passports you holdLeaves out countries that need a visa.

Visas I already holdSchengen visaUK visaUS visaA valid one opens the countries that take it.

No visa at all: leave out e-visas, ETAs and visas on arrival too Leave each city from the airport I landed at

Prices are for one traveller, flights with a cabin bag, the cheapest seen lately.

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Example trips in December

Some of the cheapest we found. They don't change with the search above.

Prices seen, not held: each says how old it is
Each total says what a cabin bag adds
Each flight is its own ticket
Ranked by price alone

We check the onward non-stop fares from each stop, for each number of nights you allow, and string the cheapest we find into a trip through several countries.

From Medan, 2–8 Dec €138per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 4 days ago, may be higher now

MedanKuala Lumpur2nSingapore4nPhuket

From Medan, 6–14 Dec €153per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 5 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang4nSingapore4nHo Chi Minh City

From Singapore, 7–11 Dec €159per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

SingaporeMedan2nPenang2nPhuket

From Medan, 10–17 Dec €164per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang4nBangkok3nPhu Quoc

Airport change in Bangkok

From Medan, 2–8 Dec €177per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 2 days ago

MedanKuala Lumpur3nBangkok3nDa Nang

Airport change in Bangkok

From Bangkok, 1–8 Dec €180per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 3 days ago

BangkokPhu Quoc3nKuala Lumpur4nMedan

The weather in December

Typical daytime highs and rain in December: long-term averages at weather stations, not a forecast.

Warm and mostly dry

Yangonhighs of 33°C, dry
Bangkokhighs of 32°C, dry
Trathighs of 32°C, dry
Lampanghighs of 31°C, dry
Laoaghighs of 31°C, dry
Mae Sothighs of 31°C, dry
Paksehighs of 31°C, dry
Phitsanulokhighs of 31°C, dry
Siem Reaphighs of 31°C, dry
Ubon Ratchathanihighs of 31°C, dry

Storm and flood seasons at their peak

Flood season, JakartaJakarta
Monsoon flood season, southern Thailand's Gulf coastKoh Samui, Surat Thani, Hat Yai, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Chumphon, Narathiwat
Monsoon flood season, western Sarawak and eastern SabahKuching, Sandakan, Lahad Datu
Monsoon flood season, central and northern SarawakMiri, Sibu, Bintulu, Mulu, Lawas
Monsoon flood season, Peninsular Malaysia's east coastKota Bharu, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu

Where to go in Southeast Asia in December

Plan your own December trip

Example trips in December

The weather in December

Warm and mostly dry

Storm and flood seasons at their peak

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Through one country in December

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