Singapore to Phuket

Singapore Airlines flies to Phuket five or six times a day, from early morning to evening. SQ726, for one, leaves at 08:15 and lands at 09:15 Phuket time. Scoot, its low-cost sister, adds three a day. Between them that's about 61 nonstop departures a week, and Thai Lion Air has flown four flights a week on the route since January 2026, though it stopped for most of May and was scheduled back at reduced frequency, so I'd treat it as a bonus if it shows up on your date.

The bag is what separates them. Scoot's economy fare lets you bring two cabin pieces, a bag up to 54 × 38 × 23 cm and a personal item up to 40 × 30 × 10 cm, together no more than 10 kg, and includes no checked bag. You buy 20 to 40 kg at booking, and a cabin bag over the limit at the airport gets checked in, possibly with excess baggage fees. Every Singapore Airlines economy fare includes a checked bag, 25 kg on the cheapest fares. With a carry-on, I'd take whichever nonstop is cheapest. With a suitcase, I'd price Scoot with the bag added before deciding, because the gap often closes.

Search Singapore to Phuket on a booking site and you'll see Thai AirAsia, Malaysia Airlines and Batik Air alongside the two nonstop airlines. None of them flies the route direct. Thai AirAsia's own nonstop ended in March 2025, and Jetstar Asia, which used to fly it too, closed in July 2025. Their itineraries change planes in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur, and on 12Go's flight board the self-connect versions take 6 hours 50 minutes to more than 10 hours.

A self-connect ticket is two separate bookings. If the first flight is late, the second airline doesn't have to wait, and Scoot's own rules say that on separate bookings you collect your bag, clear immigration and check in again. I'd only route through Bangkok if I were spending a few days there first, and our Bangkok to Phuket guide covers the domestic flights for that.

File your Thailand Digital Arrival Card before you fly. It's free at tdac.immigration.go.th, required for every foreign arrival including Singaporeans, and can be filed up to three days ahead. Singapore passports are stamped in for 30 days without a visa. Our Thailand visa guide covers other passports, and the TDAC guide walks through the form.

Patong is about 41 km and 50 minutes from the terminal. A metered taxi costs ฿600–700 on the meter plus a ฿100 airport fee, the fixed-fare counter charges ฿800 for a car for three, Grab shows about ฿750–950, and the ฿100 Smart Bus leaves every 30 minutes until 23:30 and takes about an hour and a half. Karon and Kata are 10 to 20 minutes further, about ฿1,000 by car. Our Phuket airport to Patong guide has every option beach by beach.

For Khao Lak, the counter's fixed fare is ฿1,800 for the 80 to 100 minute drive north. For Phi Phi, the ferries leave Rassada Pier, 40 to 55 minutes from the airport, between 08:30 and 15:30, so a morning flight from Singapore makes an afternoon boat. Our Phuket to Khao Lak and Phuket to Phi Phi guides have the times and fares.

There's no direct bus or train. The most practical overland route is a night coach from Singapore to Hat Yai, the big town just over the Thai border, and then a bus up the west coast. On 12Go, Sri Maju's evening coach leaves Grantral Mall in MacPherson and takes about 14 hours to Hat Yai for about ฿2,100, crossing at Bukit Kayu Hitam and Sadao. From Hat Yai, buses to Phuket take about 7.5 hours for ฿440–684. With the wait in between, that's about 24 hours for a trip the plane does in two, and it rarely saves money once you add a meal or two.

The train route runs through Kuala Lumpur and the border station at Padang Besar to Hat Yai, with a night on the way, and still ends with the same bus to Phuket. Our Singapore to Bangkok guide covers that line. For the border, Singapore citizens don't need Malaysia's MDAC arrival card, most other passports do, and you'll still file the TDAC for Thailand. Thailand caps visa-exempt land entries at two a calendar year, though that limit doesn't apply to ASEAN passports such as Singapore's.

No ferry runs from Singapore to Phuket. What does exist, from mid-October to May, is a two-day island route up the Andaman coast. AirAsia and Scoot fly Singapore to Langkawi, between them about 11 times a week, in about an hour and three quarters. From Langkawi, the 90-minute ferry to Koh Lipe runs from 15 October to 31 May, and you clear Thai immigration on the beach. From Lipe, Bundhaya's speedboat leaves Pattaya Beach at 09:00 and reaches Phuket's Rassada Pier at 14:30, ฿2,500, from mid-October to 20 May.

The ferry lands on Lipe around 10:00 Thai time and the immigration line can take an hour, so plan a night on the island. I'd only do this as a trip in itself, with a few days on Lipe, never as a way of getting to Phuket. Our Langkawi to Koh Lipe and Phuket to Koh Lipe guides have both boats in detail.

Going back, Singapore Airlines and Scoot fly the same nonstops in reverse, 2 hours 5 minutes to 2 hours 35 minutes, and the clock jumps forward an hour, so an evening flight lands in Singapore close to midnight. The Scoot bag rule works the same way home, which matters if you've bought anything in Phuket.

Patong to the airport takes about 50 minutes outside the 16:00 to 19:00 rush, which can add 30 to 45 minutes, and the Smart Bus back runs from 06:00 to about 20:20 from Patong. I'd leave a west-coast beach with the rush hour in mind, not just the 50 minutes. From Khao Lak, book a car to the airport the night before and leave three and a half to four hours ahead.