Planning to head to Southeast Asia in the next few months? Chances are you’ll be hitting a country during shoulder season - so let’s get you ready to nail travelling during a transitional month 🫶🏻
- Know your shoulder seasons!
Tropical climates aren’t just rainy season / dry season. There are two shoulder seasons to plan around, I’ve outlined them in the video for you so do watch it!
A lot of travel agents categorise shoulder season as dry season & send their clients to countries for beach holidays when it’s more likely to rain. So if you’ve gotten a travel agent to book your trip, double check your seasons.
- Beware of anecdotal advice
Shoulder seasons are *unpredictable*: you could have stunning weather on a Monday and flooding on a Thursday. So don’t count on your friends experience during the same month, they may have just gotten lucky.
- Use Instagram map stories to check weather.
Weather forecasts are notoriously unreliable during shoulder season, so I use Instagram s...