Plan your Thailand trip with clear dates and official sources
Thailand Life Tools is a set of practical planning tools for visitors and longer-stay travelers in Thailand.
Free to use, no sign-up. Your dates and amounts stay in your browser.
Tools
Trip Checker
Trip length, nights, the public holidays during your travel dates, and the alcohol sales ban days we have records for. Government-office and bank closures are listed separately.
Thailand Public Holidays
Thailand’s nationwide public holidays by year, including substitute days. Government-office and bank closures are listed separately for reference.
Alcohol Sales Rules
Buddhist holy days when alcohol sales are banned, with dates where an official source gives them; election-related bans from the official notices we have read; and the general sales hours. Not every election or local ban is listed.
Trip Budget Calculator
Add up the costs you enter for accommodation, food, transport, and activities, per person and for your whole group. No prices are suggested.
Monthly Cost of Living Planner
Turn the recurring expenses you enter, weekly to yearly, into monthly and yearly totals by category. No prices are suggested.
TDAC Guide
The official Thailand Digital Arrival Card website and what its guide and FAQ say, quoted with links. This site never asks for passport details.
Travel Checklist
What to prepare before you go, before you arrive, during your stay and before you leave, with links to official sources. Ticks are saved in your browser only; printable.
VAT Refund Estimator
Estimate the VAT refund on your shopping from the Revenue Department’s refund table, and check the minimum per store, the 60-day limit and the Customs inspection.
How information is handled
Official sources first
The holiday, alcohol, TDAC and VAT refund pages list their sources and when the information was last reviewed.
Honest about uncertainty
Information without enough support is either left out or clearly described as uncertain, never presented as fact.
Private by design
Calculations run in your browser. No account is needed, and you are never asked for passport details.