Chiang Mai, Tayland: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — editörün seçtiği zirve ay, Christmas and New Year peak

• Festival

  Bo Sang Umbrella Festival

  15–25 Oca · geneldeBüyük festival

  The umbrella-making village east of the city hangs its work along the main street for a weekend in January, with a parade and the workshops open. Half an hour out and worth the songthaew. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Christmas and New Year peak (18 Ara – 5 Oca), Wild Himalayan cherry on the hills (20 Ara – 31 Oca (genelde))

Kalabalık — Chiang Mai Flower Festival, burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili

• Festival

  Chiang Mai Flower Festival

  13–15 ŞubBüyük festivalKalabalık

  Floats built entirely of chrysanthemums and damask roses parade from Nawarat Bridge into the old town over three days, with the gardens at Suan Buak Haad planted up for it. It comes just before the air turns. Kaynak ↗

• Risk

  Burning season

  1 Şub – 20 Nis · geneldeDuman sezonu

  Field and forest fires fill the valley with smoke that the surrounding hills hold in place, and the city regularly tops the world's live pollution rankings in March. Masks and air purifiers are normal, not precautionary. Kaynak ↗

Sakin — editörün seçtiği sakin ay, burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili

Mart ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Burning season (1 Şub – 20 Nis (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — editörün seçtiği zirve ay, Songkran

• Festival

  Songkran

  13–15 NisSu festivali yeni yılıKalabalıkKapanışlar

  The moat is the ammunition supply, and the whole ring road becomes the water fight for three days. Taken more seriously here than anywhere else in the country, and largely impossible to opt out of. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Burning season (1 Şub – 20 Nis (genelde))

Kalabalık — iki zirve arasında, Tayland genelinde Long summer break

• Sezon

  Southwest monsoon

  15 May – 15 Eki · genelde

  The first rain clears the smoke out of the valley and the hills go green. It falls in short heavy bursts rather than all day, though September saturates the ground and the unpaved hill roads with it.

• Festival

  Inthakin city pillar festival

  15 May – 12 Haz · geneldeDini bayram

  Eight days of flower offerings at Wat Chedi Luang to ask the city pillar for rain, timed to the end of the hot season. Local, unhurried and almost entirely unattended by visitors. Kaynak ↗

Sakin — editörün seçtiği sakin ay, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

Haziran ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Southwest monsoon (15 May – 15 Eki (genelde)), Inthakin city pillar festival (15 May – 12 Haz (genelde))

Sakin — editörün seçtiği sakin ay, burayı dolduran pazarların 5 tanesinde okul tatili

Temmuz ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Southwest monsoon (15 May – 15 Eki (genelde))

Sakin — editörün seçtiği sakin ay, burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

• Doğa

  Waterfalls at full flow

  1 Ağu – 15 Eki · geneldeYüksek su

  The end of the monsoon is when Mae Ya, Bua Tong and the Doi Inthanon falls actually run, and the hills are green rather than burnt. Trails are muddy and the leeches are real. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Southwest monsoon (15 May – 15 Eki (genelde))

Sakin — editörün seçtiği sakin ay, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

Eylül ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Southwest monsoon (15 May – 15 Eki (genelde)), Waterfalls at full flow (1 Ağu – 15 Eki (genelde))

Kalabalık — iki zirve arasında, Tayland genelinde October semester break

• Doğa

  Rice harvest in the valley

  15 Eki – 30 Kas · genelde

  The terraces on the valley floor below the hills turn gold and are cut through late October and November, which is also when the air here is at its cleanest of the year.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Southwest monsoon (15 May – 15 Eki (genelde)), Waterfalls at full flow (1 Ağu – 15 Eki (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — editörün seçtiği zirve ay, Loi Krathong

• Festival

  Loi Krathong

  24–25 KasIşık ve ateşKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  Falls on the full moon of the twelfth Thai lunar month; the lantern release reschedules flights around it. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Yi Peng

  24–25 KasIşık ve ateşKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  The Lanna lantern festival runs alongside Loi Krathong: thousands of paper lanterns released over the old town on the same full-moon nights. The busiest week of the city's year and the one to book first. Kaynak ↗

• Kural

  Lantern-night flight changes

  23–26 KasIşık ve ateşKapanışlar

  Sky lanterns are an aviation hazard, so the airport moves or cancels flights around the lantern nights every year — 161 of them in 2025. Check your flight in against the full-moon dates before booking. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Rice harvest in the valley (15 Eki – 30 Kas (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — editörün seçtiği zirve ay, Christmas and New Year peak

• Tatil

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 Ara – 5 OcaNoel ve yılbaşıKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  The weeks around Christmas and New Year are the busiest of the year here for both foreign and Thai visitors: rooms and transport sell out early and rates run at their highest. Kaynak ↗

• Doğa

  Wild Himalayan cherry on the hills

  20 Ara – 31 Oca · geneldeKiraz çiçeği mevsimi

  The pink blossom on Doi Inthanon and the ridges towards Doi Ang Khang comes out in the coldest weeks of the year, which are also the only weeks the air up there is clean. Kaynak ↗