| Jan | 1 | New Year Day | * |
| 2nd Saturday | Children Day | * |
| Mid of Jan | Bo Sang Umbrella Fair & San Kamphaeng Handicrafts Festival:this fair, held on the main street, celebrates their traditional skills and features contests, exhibitions, stalls selling umbrellas and other handicrafts, and a Miss Bo Sang pageant. Come and enjoy this festival and please make advance Reservations.
Chiang Mai
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| End of Jan | Kite Festival
Buriram | ** |
| End of Jan ~ Feb | Chinese New Year and Dragon & Lion Parade:there is a brightly coloured procession with marching bands, various lion and dragon dances from seven nations, and figures of venerated deities. A brilliant light and sound presentation brings the event to and end.
Nakornsawan | ** |
| Feb | 5 ~ 7 | Chiang Mai Flower Festival: the north is noted for its rich variety of flowering plants, particularly temperate-climate specimens which bloom during this cool month. Spectacular floral floats are the highlight of this grand Chiang Mai event.
Buak Hat Park, Chiang Mai
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| 14 | Valentine Day | ** |
| Full moon day | Makha Bhucha: This important Buddhist Holy day marks the auspicious occasion when 1,250 of Lord Buddha's adherents spontaneously congregated to hear him give a sermon. Merit-making ceremonies are held during the day at temples throughout the country, while at night, triple candlelit circumambulations are stage around major temples. | * |
| Apr | 6 | Chakkree Day | * |
| 13 ~ 15 | Songkran Festival (Water Festival): Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year and a special occasion for merry-making throughout Thailand.
Chiang Mai | * |
| 3rd week | Pattaya Festival: food and floral floats, beauty contests, stalls selling local delicacies, and a spectacular display of fireworks on the beach are but a few of the highlights that attract merrymakers.
Pattaya, Chon buri | ** |
| May | 1 | Mayday | * |
| 1st week | Royal Ploughing Ceremony: this ancient Brahman ritual celebrates the official commencement of the rice-growing season and is staged at Sanam Luang, the large field fronting the Grand Palace. Colourful costumes are worn by the participants who perform various ceremonies believed to help predict the abundance of the next rice crop.
Sanam Luang, Bangkok | * |
| 2nd week | Yasothorn Boon Bangfai Rocket Festival: north eastern villagers fashion rockets of all kinds, some of them several metres long, launching them is believed to ensure plentiful rains during the coming rice planting season. High-spirited revelry accompanies the event, with beauty parades, folk dancing, and stage shows.
Yasothorn | ** |
| 2nd week~ | Fruit Fair: these annual fairs are held in the eastern provinces of Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat to celebrate the variety of local fruits, such as rambutan, durian, mangosteen and zalacca at their peak of succulent ripeness.
Rayong, Chanthaburi
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| Full moon day | Visakha Bhucha: This is the holiest of all Buddhist religious days, marking the birth, enlightenment, and passing away of the Lord Buddha. | * |
| July | Beginning of July | Phi Ta Khon Festival: this festival features contests of masked dances and processions. All tourisis are welcome to participate.
Amphoe Dan Sai, Loei
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| Full moon day | Asalha Bhucha : The full-moon day of the eightth lunar month marks the preaching of Lord Buddha 's first sermon to this first five disciples after attaining Enlightenment more than 2,500 years ago. In the evening, candlelit processions take place in Buddhist temples around the country. | * |
| Next day of Asalha Bhucha | Khao Phansa (Buddhist Lent): this day marks commencement of the Buddhist Lent or Phansa during which monks must reside inside their temples to study and meditate. This is also the most auspicious time for Buddhist ordinations since it marks a period of renewed spiritual vigour.
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| Aug | 12 | HM The Queen's Birthday Celebration: around Bangkok, Ratchadamnoen Avenue, the area around the Grand Palace and other well-known locations are bedecked with coloured lights and amgnificent adornments | * |
| Sep | 1st week | Boat Races: This anual event takes place on the Nan River, Phichit and Pitsanulok, one of the most naturally panoramic part of Thailand. The event features boats competing against each other with great fervour and excitement of the cheers of spectators.
Nan river, Pichit and Phitsanulok
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| Oct | ~2nd week | Buffalo Races: buffalo races and contests pitting buffalo against man. Elegant beauty pageants and various other fun activities are included, which attract visitors from all over.
City Hall, Chon Buri
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| mid of Oct | Vegetarian Festival: this annual event is held during 9th Chinese calender month in which the locals of Chinese ancestry undertake a ten day vegetarian diet. Various rituals are performed at Chinese temples and there are processions of ascetic devotees performing remarkable feats such as fire-walking and climbing ladders with knife-edge rungs.
Phuket | ** |
| 23 | Piyamaharaj Day
King Chulalongkorn(Rama V) Memorial day | * |
| End of Oct | Ork Phansa Day
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| Nov | Full moon day | Loy Krathong Festival: Krathong(made from banana leaves) floating, a fireworks display, cultural performances and an amazing light and sound show.
Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Chiang mai
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| 3rd weekend | Surin Elephant Round-Up Show: a tug of-war between elephants and men, demonstrations of log-pulling skills, and various other extraordinary feast set in a carnival atmosphere.
Surin | ** |
| End of Nov ~ 1st week of Dec | River Kwai Bridge week Fair 2001:
the world famous River Kwae Bridge, which was built by Allied prisoners-of-war during World II, becomes the focal point of celebrations.
Kanchanaburi | ** |
| Dec | 5 | H.M. The King's Birthday Celebrations:all over the country, buildings and homes are elaborately decorated and the area around the Grand Palace is spectacularly iluminated.
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| 10 | Thai Constitutional Day:
year 1932(King Rama VII), the day that constitution was promulgated in Thailand. | * |
| 25 | Christmas | ** |
| 31 | End of the year | * |
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