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Thailand

32 cities in the atlas · 33 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Preecha.MJ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Bangkok
Currency: THB; Thai Baht
Local time: Indochina TimeUTC+07:00
Calling code: +66
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A, B, C and F

Facts

Thailand in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Bangkok
Currency: Thai Baht THBToday's indicative rate: THB 10 ≈ USD 0.298Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ThaiSpoken: Thai and English
Time zones: Indochina TimeUTC+07:00
Calling code: +66
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A, B, C and F220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 1669ambulance191police199fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 71,619,863 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 514,000 km²
Internet domain: .th
Land borders: Cambodia Laos Malaysia Myanmar

When to go

Climate across Thailand

In November to January, more than half of the 4 cities with figures in Thailand have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Bangkok	33°	35°	36°	36°	34°	32°	31°	31°	30°	30°	30°	31°
Chiang Mai	26°	29°	32°	34°	31°	29°	28°	27°	27°	26°	25°	24°
Phuket	28°	29°	30°	30°	29°	29°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°
Samut Prakan	31°	33°	33°	34°	32°	31°	31°	31°	30°	30°	30°	30°
Cities good for going, of 4	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	4

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Thailand is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Thailand

All 32 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Thailand

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Photographs

Thailand in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Phuket
Photo: Полина Славянская · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Thailand

From the journal

Plan a trip to Thailand

Tell us where in Thailand, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

Plan a trip to Thailand All countries

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Asia · Southeast Asia

Thailand

32 cities in the atlas · 33 airports with scheduled flights

Plan a trip to Thailand Ask our visa desk

Photo: Preecha.MJ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Bangkok
Currency: THB; Thai Baht
Local time: Indochina TimeUTC+07:00
Calling code: +66
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A, B, C and F

Facts

Thailand in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Bangkok
Currency: Thai Baht THBToday's indicative rate: THB 10 ≈ USD 0.298Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ThaiSpoken: Thai and English
Time zones: Indochina TimeUTC+07:00
Calling code: +66
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A, B, C and F220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 1669ambulance191police199fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 71,619,863 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 514,000 km²
Internet domain: .th
Land borders: Cambodia Laos Malaysia Myanmar

When to go

Climate across Thailand

In November to January, more than half of the 4 cities with figures in Thailand have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Bangkok	33°	35°	36°	36°	34°	32°	31°	31°	30°	30°	30°	31°
Chiang Mai	26°	29°	32°	34°	31°	29°	28°	27°	27°	26°	25°	24°
Phuket	28°	29°	30°	30°	29°	29°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°
Samut Prakan	31°	33°	33°	34°	32°	31°	31°	31°	30°	30°	30°	30°
Cities good for going, of 4	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	4

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Thailand is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Thailand

All 32 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Thailand

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Photographs

Thailand in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Phuket
Photo: Полина Славянская · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Thailand

From the journal

Plan a trip to Thailand

Tell us where in Thailand, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

Plan a trip to Thailand All countries

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Thailand

Thailand in figures

Climate across Thailand

Where Thailand is

Cities in Thailand

Airports in Thailand

Large airports

Thailand in pictures

Our guides in Thailand

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Thailand

Thailand in figures

Climate across Thailand

Where Thailand is

Cities in Thailand

Airports in Thailand

Large airports

Thailand in pictures

Our guides in Thailand

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