Season calendar

Mangosteen season by country

Thailand's mangosteen export window, month by month, and how it overlaps the durian peak it usually ships alongside.

Peak supply May–July from Thailand. No origin on this page is at peak in August–April.

Mangosteen export calendar: which origin ships in which month.
Origin January February March April May June July August September October November December
Thailand January: Not shipping February: Not shipping March: Not shipping April: Shoulder May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Shoulder September: Not shipping October: Not shipping November: Not shipping December: Not shipping
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of the origin rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Mangosteen shares its window and often its booking with durian, which is the practical point of the calendar below: the weeks when mangosteen is cheapest and best are the weeks when vessel space out of Laem Chabang is hardest to get, because everybody is shipping at once.

The fruit travels better than its reputation suggests — the thick rind is a container in its own right — but that rind hardens as it dries, and a hard rind is read as old fruit by a buyer even when the flesh is perfect. Humidity in transit does as much for arrival quality here as temperature does.

Thailand

May–July peak · April, August shoulder Load ports: Laem Chabang and Bangkok

Roughly April to August, on almost the same weeks as durian and often in the same booking. That is the useful thing to know about it: mangosteen is at its best and cheapest exactly when vessel space out of Laem Chabang is at its tightest.

The rind does most of the work of keeping the fruit, but it hardens as it dries and a hard rind reads as old fruit to a buyer who has not opened one. Humidity in transit matters as much as temperature on this one.

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The same origins also ship