Your guide to Thailand’s epic 2025 festival season

Back this year at Centerpoint Studio, it feels like a declaration: two stages, zero breaks and a line-up that stitches together the sounds running through Bangkok’s headphones right now. Big Naughty and Yented lead the charge, flanked by Dept, Badvillian, Babychair, 12BH and a revolving cast that keeps the energy running without pause. What makes it matter isn’t just the names – it’s the fact the event feels designed to collapse distance, pulling international acts into the same breath as local favourites. A reminder that Bangkok’s music scene is hungry, loud and absolutely unbothered by moderation.

Line-up includes: BIG Naughty, YENTED, DEPT, BADVILLAI, Babychair, 12BH, off the menu, Tokai, Regina Song, Monday Off With Bluesy, satellite and Rumblecloud.

Centerpoint Studio. October 4. Starts at B1,900.

By the time November rolls around, Bangkok starts to feel like a frying pan you can’t climb out of. Which is why Unaharn’s fifth edition – back on home turf in Nakhon Nayok – feels like an escape hatch. Two and a half hours up the road, just beyond the edge of Khao Yai National Park, a private six-acre resort becomes the stage for three days and nights of music, meandering and the occasional peacock strutting past. The familiar Garden and Forest stages are joined this year by an Ambient corner complete with a dedicated lounge, all powered by Funktion One. Between DJ sets, you can slip into Sunday yoga, stitch together a makeshift outfit, or wander five minutes to a hidden waterfall that’s so cinematic it feels almost unfair.

Line-up includes: Brent Burns, E Nick, Kova O' Sarin, Mae Happyair, Mumsflibaba, Reptant, Romrom, Susha, Dj Tada, Takky, Tobes and more.

Rabiangprai Valley Resort, Nakhon Nayok. November 7-9. Starts at B2,100.

November without Maho Rasop Festival feels a bit like Christmas without lights. For years it was the weekend where Bangkok suddenly transformed into a city of guitars, rain delays and strangers pressed shoulder to shoulder in collective discovery. Last year it was Air who carried the night, their set floating somewhere between memory and mirage, the kind of performance that makes you doubt your own recall. But this season, the festival is stepping back. Instead of one sprawling field, we get Maho Rasop Series: a string of standalone shows scattered through November and December 2025. Think smaller rooms, deliberate choices, the intimacy of proximity. The usual minds – HAVE YOU HEARD?, Seen Scene Space, Fungjai – still steering, only this time it’s closeness that takes the headline slot.

Line-up includes: Black Country, New Road, L'Impératrice, Suchmos and more names to be announced.

L'Impératrice: The Street Hall. November 27. Starts at B1,900.

Suchmos: Ambience Space. November 30. Starts at B1,800.

Black Country, New Road: Search Studio, Ramkhamhaeng 81.December 13. Starts at B2,000.

Some festivals build skyscraper stages and call it spectacle. Others, like the one in Chiang Dao, carve out something stranger: a temporary village at the foot of mountains where music and art feel stitched into the soil. Four stages unfold here, each with its own temperament. The Mycelium Main Stage holds full-band performances, bands from Bangkok to Berlin thrumming under the open sky. The Jungle Stage does what it says, DJs carrying dancers from morning until dusk beneath the canopy. Psytrance takes the graveyard shift, spiralling until sunrise, while the Grounding Stage slows things into ambient drift and experimental haze. 

Line-up includes: Srirajah Rockers, Mes Lèvres, The Labrador Band, Helicopter Secondhand, Elaheh, Pshiuu, Takky, Morrieo, John Lee, Goa Gummy, RomRom, Liem, Kornnlee, Krit su, Terada and more.

Tiger Jungle Art Camp, Chiang Dao. November 14-15. Starts at B2,000.

Rolling Loud arriving in Pattaya is a bit like spotting a comet: rare, dazzling, faintly unbelievable. Billed as one of the biggest hip-hop festivals on the planet, it promises the kind of weekend where bass rattles the coastline and fans travel across borders just to sweat it out together. The brand’s reputation is almost mythic – chaotic, euphoric, occasionally cursed by a no-show or two. Last year’s missing headliner still lingers in the group chat like an unresolved argument. This time, the dates and location are locked, even if the line-up is still under wraps. Rumours are circling, guesses are flying, and every announcement is treated like scripture. Whatever the outcome, Pattaya is bracing itself for a gathering that feels equal parts pilgrimage and carnival.

Line-up includes: All names to be announced.

Legend Siam, Pattaya. November 14-16. Starts at B6,900.

December in Bangkok has its own rituals: traffic that refuses to move, office parties nobody remembers, and 808 Festival thundering through it all. For nearly a decade it’s been the city’s annual reminder that EDM isn’t just a genre but a temporary religion, with BITEC transformed into a cavern of strobes and basslines. Three nights, two stages, no headliners announced yet – but the details almost don’t matter. What people come for is the collective ignition, the sense that the year can only end with thousands of strangers dancing as if it’s their last chance. If Bangkok needs closure, this is how it finds it.

Line-up includes: All names to be announced.

BITEC Bangna. December 5-7. Starts at B3,750.

Bangkok has been busy collecting international festival trophies. But sometimes the real story is elsewhere. A few hours north, Big Mountain Music Festival has built itself into Thailand’s own giant, a sprawl of 14 stages and over 100 acts set against the ridges of Khao Yai. It’s about letting Thai sounds breathe – morlam alongside pop, indie tucked beside rock, the occasional global name dropped in for contrast. Out here, the mountains are not backdrop but co-stars, looming over the fields like permanent headliners. If Bangkok flexes its neon, Khao Yai answers with scale, dust and music that feels unmistakably homegrown.

Line-up includes: Lomosonic, Big Ass, Potato, Bodyslam, Samui, Monica, Wolf Howl Harmony, Proxie, Perses, FelizZ, Fourth, Lykn, Jasp.er, Jaylerr and more.

The Ocean Khao Yai, Nakhon Ratchasima. December 6-7. Starts at B2,500. Tickets are available for purchase at all 7-Eleven locations nationwide via Counter Service All Ticket, as well as online through the AllTicket website here, the Ticketier website here and the Ticketier app.

Once a December escape, Wonderfruit has quietly shed its seasonal coat. Ten years on, what was a five-day festival of music, art, food and ideas has grown into something structural, deliberate, almost inevitable. Returning for its tenth anniversary, it doesn’t simply arrive – it expands, spilling beyond its familiar frame into a continuous hum of culture. Ninety-nine hours of art, sound and movement, more than 40 installations, 300 performances, 130 food offerings and 90 wellness sessions make the fields a universe you wander through at your own pace. This year, the conversation stretches further: year-round workshops, residencies, subtle interventions that whisper rather than shout. Wonderfruit is no longer a weekend on the calendar – it’s a persistent pulse, quietly reshaping the rhythm of the city.

Line-up includes: Antal, A Guy Called Gerald, FKJ (DJ Set), Gilles Peterson, Hatis Noit & Orly Anan, Kerala Dust, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, múm, Pearson Sound, Shubostar, Vanishing Twin and more names to be announced.

Siam Country Club in Pattaya. December 11-15. Starts at B15,000.

Set inside Impact Exhibition Hall, it’s pitched as the biggest EDM gathering on the continent, a claim the organisers substantiate with Calvin Harris at the top of the bill. The festival’s reputation precedes it – Creamfields has long been one of the names that define electronic culture, cited by DJ Mag and whispered like gospel in dance circles. Indoors means no sudden storms, just total control: lights choreographed to the millisecond, bass designed to rattle bones, stages engineered to disorient. More than 50,000 are expected to descend, a temporary city of fans who treat dance music less as pastime than as communal religion.

Line-up includes: Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Steve Angello, Andy C, Hybrid Minds, Eli & Fur, Pendulum DJ Set and more names to be announced.

IMPACT Exhibition Hall 5-10. December 13-14. Starts at B7,800.

Koh Mak isn’t the sort of island that shouts. No neon strips, not even the comfort of a 7-Eleven – just quiet beaches and a community intent on keeping them that way. Which is why Fly To The Moon feels more like a secret you’re lucky to be told. Now in its twelfth year, the five-day celebration slips into carefully chosen corners of the island, each night spinning together music, nature and the kind of intimacy that only happens when the headcount is kept deliberately small. There’s no chasing spectacle here, only the rhythm of tide and sky, ending in the shared ritual of watching a new year rise over the water. Somehow it feels both fleeting and eternal.

Line-up includes: All names to be announced.

Koh Mak Island and Koh Kut. December 28-January 2. Starts at B7,700.