Festivals

The in-game calendar: one game day is one month, so a year passes in six real hours and Thai festivals come round often.

• 🎆New Year
  January, December · Every town
• 🎈Children’s Day
  January · Every town (schools, temples, markets)
• 🧧Chinese New Year
  February · Yaowarat (Bangkok) · Mahachai · Chiang Mai’s Chinese quarter
• 🕯️Makha Bucha — candle procession
  February · Temples in every town
• 💦Songkran
  April · Every town · the north calls it Pii Mai Muang
• 🕯️Visakha Bucha — candle procession
  May · Temples in every town
• 🕯️Asalha Bucha · Rains retreat · Candle parade
  July · Temples in every town (Ubon has the grandest parade)
• 🏮Ghost Festival · Hungry Ghosts · Kradat
  August · Yaowarat · Mahachai · Chinese quarters
• 🍯Sart Thai (mid-year merit)
  September · Temples everywhere · the south’s Ching Pret (no map yet)
• 🚩Vegetarian Festival
  October · Yaowarat · Mahachai (yellow flags)
• 🪷End of the rains · Tak Bat Thewo
  October · Temples in every town
• 🪔Loy Krathong
  November · Every waterside · the north: Yi Peng (sky and hanging lanterns)