Thai Festivals

April to June More Index Jan-Mar Jul-Sep Oct-Dec

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April

Nation-wide

Songkran (Thai New Year)
12 - 14 April
For water, fun and excitement nothing beats the Thai New Year. Religious ceremonies and public festivities abound as do buckets of water and warm blessings. The splashes of water are a welcome refreshment during the peak of the hot season. Particularly lively in Chiang Mai.

Chiang Mai

Songkran Festival
12 - 15 April?
With merit-making ceremonies at local temples, good natured water fights, parades and beauty contests, Chiang Mai offers the most enthusiastic celebrations of the Thai New Year.

Chonburi

Pattaya Festival
17 - 19 April
Fireworks, food & floral floats, beauty contests and stalls selling local delicacies fill the streets of Thailand's world famous seaside resort. The beach-side event attracts merry-makers from around the world.

May

Bangkok

Royal Ploughing Ceremony
9 May
The official beginning of the rice-planting season is held at Sanam Luang opposite the Grand Palace, where an ancient Brahmin ritual is re-enacted with various rites to forecast the abundance of the next rice crop.

Yasothon

Bun Bangfai Rocket Festival
10 - 11 May
Rockets, high spirited revelry, folk dancing, theatre and beauty parades accompany this lively festival. Rockets of all sizes and shapes are launched to ensure plentiful rains for the rice planting season.

Nation-wide

Visakha Puja
20 May
The holiest of all Buddhist religious days marks the birth, enlightenment of the Lord Buddha. It is honoured in temples throughout the land with sermons by revered monks and solemnly beautiful candle lit processions.

Rayong

Chantaburi & Trat Fruit Fair
Exotic fruits such as rambutan, durian, magosteen and zalacca are ripe and the eastern provinces are celebrating. Sample the produce of local orchards, watch fruit and flower processions, fruit contests, cultural shows and handicraft and agricultural exhibitions.
Rayong: 3 - 18 May
Chantaburi: May
Trat: 30 May - 1st June

June

Loei

Phi Ta Khon Festival
14 - 15 June
Prince Vessandorn's (the Buddha's penultimate incarnation) welcome home procession was grand enough to inspire the spirits to join the celebrations. Today men dressed as spirits parade a Buddha image and tease villages and visitors while monks recite this ancient Buddhist tale.

Udon Thani

5,000 Years Ban Chiang Civilization Celebrations
14 - 16 June
The renowned Bronze age civilization of Ban Chiang is commemorated on-site with academic seminars, art & cultural processions, handicraft shows, exhibitions, international and local sporting events, light and sound shows as well as Traditional Thai dancing.

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