Events in Thailand 2026-2027
Why your dates matter
Thailand's calendar is one of the better reasons to choose your dates carefully. This page tracks festivals and seasonal events across the country, with the dates as currently announced, where they happen and what is actually involved in attending.
National festivals and local ones
Some are national and shift with the lunar calendar: Songkran in April, Loy Krathong and Yi Peng in November, Visakha Bucha in the rains. Others are local and easy to miss unless someone tells you — temple fairs, harvest days, provincial celebrations that draw a few thousand people rather than a few hundred thousand. We list both, because the second kind is usually the better experience and almost never appears in a guidebook.
What each entry tells you
Each entry gives the region, the timing and a plain description of the atmosphere: whether it is a crowd event, whether accommodation is going to be scarce, whether it suits children, whether the photographs you have seen represent a single hour of a three-day event.
Building a trip around a festival
Our own programme runs in Kanchanaburi, Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Ayutthaya, from day trips through to seven-day programmes, in small groups of typically two to eight people, guided in English and French. If a festival is the anchor of your trip, tell us which one and we will build the days around it and quote accordingly. We reply personally.