Events & Festivals 2014 Thailand
January 1 2014
There are Thailand countless festivals and special events throughout the year. Sometimes they are nationwide celebrations such as Songkran and Loy Krathong), but there are also events that focus on a city or province.
The exact date of a number Thai festivals and Buddhist holidays differ every year, as they depend on the lunar calendar and the full moon night.
Below are some of the most famous annual Thai festivals and special events in 2014. For the exact date, inquire locally or on the website of the Thai tourist office.
January
- New Year's Day (public holiday) – January 1
- Day of the Child – second Saturday in January
- Bo Sang Umbrella Festival in Chiang Mai
February
- Chiang Mai Flower Festival
- Chinese New Year – This is celebrated in many parts of Thailand, but especially in the Chinatown of Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Trang
- Trang Underwater Wedding – Valentine's Day.
- Burapa Pattaya Bike Week - mid February. This motorcycling event is considered the largest in Southeast Asia
- Phuket International Blue Rock Festival
- Makha Bucha Day (public holiday)
March
- National Muay Thai Day
- Pattaya International Music Festival
April
- Chakri Day (public holiday)
- Songkran Thai New Year – Festival of water (national holiday) – April 13 to 15
- Chon Buri Festival
- Phuket Bike Week
Mei
- Labor Day (public holiday) – May 1
- Coronation Day (public holiday) – May 5
- Royal Plowing Ceremony, Bangkok – date usually falls in May.
- Rocket Festival, Isaan – Various local events in the North East of Thailand with the most famous being the 'Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival' in Yasothon
- Chiang Mai Inthakin City Pillar Festival
- Visakha Bucha Day (public holiday)
- Koh Samui Yacht Regatta
June
- Hua Hin Jazz Festival
July
- Phuket Yachting Race Week
- Asahna Bucha Day (public holiday)
- Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival
August
- Queen's Day and Mother's Day (National Holiday) – 12 August
- Por Tor Hungry Ghost Festival, Phuket
September
- Phuket Vegetarian Festival – usually takes place in September. There are also celebrations in Trang, Krabi, Bangkok and Chiang Mai
- King's Cup Elephant Polo, Hua Hin.
October
- Chulalongkorn Day (public holiday) – October 23
- Buffalo Racing Festival, Chonburi
- Naga Fireballs, Nong Khai
November
- Elephant Roundup Festival, Surin
- Loy Krathong
- Yi Peng Lantern Festival, Chiang Mai – held on the occasion of Loy Krathong
- Monkey Banquet Festival, Lop Buri
December
- King's Birthday and Father's Day (national holiday) – 5 December
- Constitution Day (public holiday) – December 10
- New Year's Eve (holiday) – December 31.
With such a list you can choose some destinations.
Unfortunately I'm just too late, otherwise I could have pointed out the crab festival last weekend in Cha-Am. A kind of Yerseke's mussel day. We have just been there, busy but cozy. Held annually at this time.
Thanks for the list. Always handy if you happen to be in the area on certain dates.
In the cowboy town of PakChong there is a festival and fair from 1 to 12 July, partly because the season of Noi Naa starts, is sweet apple.
There is a procession of floats hung with fruit and performances by well-known bands every night,
is always fun.
This year Chinese New Year is on January 28, which is not on the same day every year and can also fall on February 14, so Valentine's Day. Kings Cup Elephant Polo, shouldn't that be 2014? Or is the correct date not yet known? Also in Nakhon ratchasima there is an annual wax statue parade and also with exhibited wax figures on the ramparts of the city and on the square of Thao Suranari. I don't remember the exact date. It is by chance that we saw it once 2 years ago.