2026 in Thailand

The year 2026 is reckoned as the year 2569 in Buddhist Era, the Thai calendar.

Incumbents

Events

January

2 January – The Royal Gazette officially places the date for a referendum on a new constitution for February 8.
6 January – A Thai soldier is injured in mortar shelling blamed on an accident by Cambodian forces along their common border in Ubon Ratchathani province.
11 January – Eleven PTT petrol stations in the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala are targeted in a series of bomb attacks that leave a police officer and three civilians injured.
14 January – A construction crane falls on a passenger train in Sikhio district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, killing 32 people and injuring 66 others.
15 January – A construction crane collapses onto vehicles on Rama II Road in Samut Sakhon province, killing two people.
20 January –
*Fourteen Thai nationals believed to have escaped from a scam center in Cambodia are detained after crossing the international border into Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo province.
*Prime minister Charnvirakul announces the end of a four-month operation to curb drug trafficking, resulting in the seizure of over 330 million methamphetamine tablets and over 3.39 billion baht, the arrest of over 88,000 suspects, and the dismantling of several crime syndicates.
20–26 January – 2026 ASEAN Para Games
25 January – Authorities reintroduce endangered Indo-Pacific leopard sharks off the coast of Phuket province in efforts to increase the wild populations.
29 January – An AT-6TH Wolverine aircraft of the Royal Thai Air Force crashes during a training flight in Chom Thong district, Chiang Mai, killing its two pilots.
30 January –
*Two Thai soldiers are injured in a detonation of unexploded munitions caused by a grassfire near the Cambodia-Thailand border in Nam Yuen district, Ubon Ratchathani province.
*One person is killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Don Chedi district, Suphan Buri province.

Scheduled

8 February 2026 Thai general election and referendum
11–13 December The Belgium-based Tomorrowland festival will stage its first Asian edition in Pattaya.

Art and entertainment

List of Thai submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Holidays

1 January New Year's Day
17 February Chinese New Year
3 March Makha Bucha Day
19–20–March Hari Raya Puasa
6 April Chakri Memorial Day
13–15 April Songkran Festival
1 May Labour Day and Visakha Bucha Day
4 May Coronation of King Vajiralongkorn Holiday
11 May Royal Ploughing Ceremony
3 June Queen Suthida's Birthday
28 July King Vajiralongkorn's Birthday
29 July Asahna Bucha Day
12 August The Queen Mother's Birthday
13 October King Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day
23 October Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
5 December King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Birthday
10 December Constitution Day
25 December Christmas Day
31 December New Year's Eve

Deaths

5 January – Induratana Paribatra, 103, royal
12 January – Asda Jayanama, 84, diplomat
22 January – Bunjop Bunnag, 100, politician, minister of defence.