Koh Phangan has no club district. The nightlife is spread over a few separate zones and the calendar follows the moon. The Full Moon Party takes place on Sunrise Beach at Haad Rin, and the next one is on Tuesday 27 October 2026, moved a day from 26 October because the full moon falls on Ok Phansa, a Buddhist holy day with an alcohol sales ban. Entry is ฿200 at the beach gate and the official site says the party is permitted to run until 06:00. Between full moons the choice moves inland: OXA runs a Friday jungle party on three stages near Ban Tai, Half Moon Festival and Jungle Experience hold ticketed all-night events in the Ban Tai forest, and Eden Garden hosts a free Saturday session on the rocks above Haad Yuan that is reached by boat. Thong Sala, the main town and ferry port, and Srithanu on the west coast have bars that close between 01:00 and 02:00. The ride home is a songthaew, a taxi or a boat at a price agreed in advance. Worth knowing: Thai alcohol rules switch off retail sales on the main Buddhist holy days, and full-moon parties are moved to the following night when the two coincide.
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It is an island of separate scenes, not one nightlife centre. Haad Rin, at the southern tip, has the beach bars and the Full Moon Party. Ban Tai, the subdistrict that covers Haad Rin and the south coast, has the forest venues: OXA, Jungle Experience and Half Moon Festival. Haad Yuan, a small bay north of Haad Rin, has Eden Garden. Thong Sala, the main town and ferry port, has a sports bar and an Irish pub, Srithanu has a cocktail bar and restaurant, and Amsterdam Bar on the hillside above the west coast is the sunset stop. Moving between zones means a songthaew, a taxi or a boat.
Most big nights are ticketed events, not venues with set hours. OXA lists its Fridays and a few extra dates on Megatix, Half Moon Festival publishes a small calendar of paired days around the half moons, and Jungle Experience runs on its own dates clustered around the moon parties. Eden Garden is free and runs every Saturday, according to Techno Airlines, and Chill Up Club in Ban Tai is free and open six nights a week with a themed night each evening. Check the date before you book a boat or a room.
The full moon sets the island's rhythm. Full Moon week raises room prices several times above the normal rate, according to Thai Holiday Guide, and the biggest crowds come in December and January. Quieter months such as May, June and September draw about 5,000 to 10,000 people, the same guide says. The party is officially permitted to run until 06:00, and Visit Thailand Today says the beach fills from about 22:00 and peaks between 01:00 and 03:00.
The Full Moon Party on Sunrise Beach is the largest night on the island, with Cactus Bar and Drop In Bar playing commercial dance in the middle of the beach and fire shows between the bars.
OXA lists tech house, melodic techno and techno on three stages on Fridays, Jungle Experience lists house, techno and drum and bass on two stages in a forest clearing, and Chill Up Club runs PSYDAY psytrance nights and a Saturday drum and bass night called Sinewave.
Half Moon Festival combines a Harmony Beach Club afternoon with a Magic Forest night, with G Floor playing house and progressive trance and The Cave playing hip hop and R&B.
Eden Garden has free entry on Saturdays, Chill Up Club is free on all its nights, bars list no cover on regular nights, and OXA tickets start at ฿400.
SOHO Phangan in Thong Sala shows live sport on large HD screens over two floors, and The Ugly Duckling is an Irish pub nearby on Taladkao Road.
Amsterdam Bar's hillside terrace is open daily from 12:00 to 01:00, and Tipsy Cocktail Bar & Restaurant in Srithanu is open daily from 18:00 to 02:00.
Not for you if you want a seated, controlled club night every evening or a plan that depends on a taxi after midnight. The official site calls the roads notoriously dangerous around the party, and the ride home needs arranging before the night starts.
Sundowners at Amsterdam Bar, the hillside terrace above the west coast: The Broke Backpacker suggests arriving around 16:30, Visit Thailand Today suggests 17:00 in high season and calls it the traditional gentle first act before the Full Moon Party.
The last regular ferry from Samui: the Haad Rin Queen leaves Bangrak at 17:00 and arrives at 17:50 for ฿200, and Lomprayah leaves Maenam for Thong Sala at 17:00.
Bars open: Tipsy in Srithanu from 18:00, and Chill Up Club and Drop In Bar open at 19:00, while The Ugly Duckling and SOHO in Thong Sala have been open since the morning. phangan.events lists the 27 October Full Moon Party from 18:00.
Eden Garden starts on Saturdays, Half Moon Magic Forest nights start at 21:00 and Chill Up Club's themed nights are listed at 21:00, while Jungle Experience lists gates at 22:00 on its November and December dates.
Haad Rin fills on Full Moon night, according to Visit Thailand Today, and entry is ฿200 at the beach gates.
The Thong Sala bars close around 01:00 and the Full Moon Party beach reaches its busiest hours, between 01:00 and 03:00.
The beach is permitted to run until sunrise, and Jungle Experience nights end at about 06:00.
The Haad Rin Queen back to Bangrak leaves Haad Rin Pier at 09:30 for ฿200.
Megatix lists a midnight opening from 23:59 on Monday to 06:00 on Tuesday, the night before the Full Moon Party. The organiser's own page still shows a Sunday 25 October heading, so check the ticket.
The next party, held on Sunrise Beach with a ฿200 gate fee. It was moved from Monday 26 October because the full moon falls on Ok Phansa.
Megatix lists a three-stage Halloween night with TiM TASTE from ฿400, the only Saturday on the Megatix calendar to February 2027.
The official dates page lists 3 and 17 November, then paired days on 2 to 3 December and 16 to 17 December, with Harmony Beach Club from 15:00 to 24:00 and the Magic Forest from 21:00 until sunrise. Sources differ on the type of the November nights, so check the ticket.
The next two parties after October, followed by the New Year 2027 countdown party on Thursday 31 December. OXA lists a Christmas Special on Friday 25 December, the day after the Full Moon Party.
Gates open at 22:00 with Martin Ikin billed as headliner, according to Thai Holiday Guide.
A free party on the rocks above Haad Yuan, from 21:00 until late Sunday morning.
Retro Mountain lists a Halloween Hard Techno Rave on Wednesday 28 October at 21:00, Sabaii Bay Beach Club a Halloween Party on Friday 30 October at 20:00, and Bluerama a sunset pool party on Saturday 24 October at 15:00. Prices are not listed there.
Sunrise Beach (Haad Rin Nok) has the beach bars: Cactus Bar at 146/9 Moo 6 and Drop In Bar at 147, about 80 m apart in the middle of the beach. Sunset Beach (Haad Rin Nai) lies to the south, and the town centres on Chicken Corner. Wikipedia names Vinyl Club and Zoom for psytrance, Orchid for drum and bass and Boom Boom Bar for deeper house and trance.
OXA is at 72/52 Moo 2, Half Moon Festival has two sites at 99/5 Moo 1 (Harmony Beach Club) and 72/39 Moo 2 (Magic Forest), and Jungle Experience is in the forest about 1 km inland from the Ban Tai beach road. Chill Up Club is on the Ban Tai main road at 114/2 Moo 1. Songthaew or Grab from the pier is the usual route.
A small bay on the east coast north of Haad Rin. Eden Garden is on the rocks above the beach, reached by taxi boat from Haad Rin pier in 10 to 15 minutes or by a 4x4 from Ban Tai in 30 to 35 minutes.
SOHO Phangan at 44/56 Moo 1 and The Ugly Duckling on Taladkao Road are about 40 m apart, and The Broke Backpacker lists the Thong Sala (Phangtip) night market as open from 16:00 to around midnight.
Tipsy Cocktail Bar & Restaurant is open daily from 18:00 to 02:00, and Amsterdam Bar is a steep climb from the coast road between Thong Sala and Srithanu, open daily from 12:00 to 01:00.
The Full Moon Party has a gate fee of ฿200 and no online tickets; fullmoonparty-thailand.com says any site selling advance tickets is a scam. OXA sells through Megatix, Half Moon Festival through its own site and Eventpop listings, and Jungle Experience sells only through jungle-experience.com or Megatix. None of the pages read lists a dress code. Eden Garden asks for shoes to be left at the entrance, and bans photos, videos and drones.
Free at Eden Garden, ฿200 at the Full Moon Party gate, from ฿400 at OXA, and about ฿1,500 to ฿3,500 at Half Moon Festival according to Thai Holiday Guide. Buckets cost about ฿300 to ฿500 according to Visit Thailand Today and ฿200 to ฿400 according to Direct Ferries. Eden Garden's bar is cash only and there are no ATMs on the beach.
Arrange it before the night starts. Songthaews and taxis run on party nights at agreed prices, Eden Garden has taxi boats from Haad Rin pier that run all night, and the official site advises against riding a scooter after the party. Visit Thailand Today suggests Grab because taxis often refuse meters late at night.
| Full Moon Party entry (official site, gate only) | ฿200 |
| Bucket, Full Moon Party (Visit Thailand Today) | ฿300 – ฿500 |
| Bucket (Direct Ferries) | ฿200 – ฿400 |
| OXA ticket, Megatix “from” price, 31 October 2026 onwards | ฿400 – ฿500 |
| Half Moon Festival, Harmony day (Thai Holiday Guide, approximate gate price) | About ฿1,500 |
| Half Moon Festival, Magic Forest night (Thai Holiday Guide) | About ฿2,700 |
| Half Moon Festival, two-day Wonder Access (Thai Holiday Guide) | About ฿3,500 |
| Eden Garden entry (Techno Airlines) | Free |
| Shared songthaew, Thong Sala to Haad Rin (fullmoonparty-thailand.com) | ฿150 – ฿200 |
| Taxi, Baan Tai to Haad Rin (fullmoonparty-thailand.com) | About ฿150 |
| Taxi boat, Haad Rin pier to Eden Garden (Techno Airlines) | About ฿400 |
| Haad Rin Queen ferry, Bangrak to Haad Rin, 17:00 | ฿200 |
| Night speedboat from Bangrak on party nights (Echo; Full Moon Speedboats) | ฿600 – ฿1,400 |
| Motorbike rental per day (Visit Thailand Today) | ฿200 – ฿300 |
Eden Garden is free, and the taxi boat from Haad Rin pier is about ฿400 according to Techno Airlines. Bring cash: the bar is cash only and there are no ATMs on the beach.
The ฿200 Full Moon Party gate plus one bucket at about ฿300, before the songthaew back. Visit Thailand Today says most people spend ฿1,500 to ฿4,000 for the whole night.
A Half Moon Festival Magic Forest night at the approximate gate price Thai Holiday Guide quotes, before transport and drinks. Online prices are often slightly lower.
The Full Moon Party moves to the day after a Buddhist holy day. The holy days marked on the official dates page are Makha Bucha on Sunday 21 February 2027, Visakha Bucha on 20 May, Asalha Bucha on 18 July, Khao Phansa on 19 July and Ok Phansa on 15 October 2027, and Thai Holiday Guide lists each of these as a sales-ban day. The July 2026 ban ran from 00:01 on 29 July to midnight on 30 July.
The 2026 rules exempt licensed entertainment venues, venues in designated tourist areas, hotels licensed under the hotel law and designated events, while shops, convenience stores and ordinary restaurants must stop selling. Penalties run to six months in prison, a ฿10,000 fine or both.
Fullmoonparty-thailand.com warns of broken glass on the beach and says to avoid flip-flops, and the official safety page advises shoes you do not mind getting dirty.
The official safety page warns that buckets from random vendors may contain cheap replacements or methanol, and says to buy sealed drinks when you can.
The official site calls theft and pickpocketing very common, and fullmoonparty-thailand.com says ATMs run out of cash around the full moon.
Boats from Samui fill up on party days, according to Visit Thailand Today, and Thai Holiday Guide advises booking rooms 2 to 4 weeks ahead for December to March and 4 to 6 weeks ahead for December or January.
The official safety page says the roads are notoriously dangerous around the Full Moon Party and recommends a public taxi.
Wikipedia dates the first Full Moon Party to 1985 and notes that a first party may have been improvised in 1983, with both dates disputed. The Guardian called it the largest beach rave in the world in 2010.
In April 2015 all parties except the Full Moon Party were banned on Koh Phangan after noise complaints, according to Wikipedia, and the October 2017 party was cancelled for the cremation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Parties resumed on 16 April 2022 after the 2020 cancellation.
Wikipedia says the fire-rope shows at Cactus Bar and Drop In Bar use rope soaked in diesel.
The official site says the ฿200 entry fee supports the cleanup services and infrastructure of the local Haad Rin community.
Wikipedia lists Danny Boyle's film The Beach and John Harris's novel The Backpacker among the media featuring Haad Rin beach.
Tuesday 27 October 2026, then Tuesday 24 November, Thursday 24 December and a New Year countdown on Thursday 31 December 2026, according to the official site. The 2027 dates start on Friday 22 January, then Monday 22 February, Monday 22 March and Wednesday 21 April.
Entry is ฿200, paid at the beach gate. There are no online tickets, and fullmoonparty-thailand.com calls any site selling advance tickets a scam. Buckets cost about ฿200 to ฿500 depending on the guide.
The Full Moon Party is permitted to run until 06:00, Jungle Experience lists nights to about 06:00 and the Magic Forest at Half Moon Festival runs until sunrise. Bars in Thong Sala and Srithanu close between 01:00 and 02:00, and Drop In Bar at Haad Rin lists 04:00.
Shops, convenience stores and ordinary restaurants cannot sell alcohol on the main holy days. Licensed entertainment venues, venues in designated tourist areas, hotels and designated events are exempt. Full Moon Parties are moved to the following day when they coincide, as on 26 to 27 October 2026.
Regular ferries from Samui stop around 17:00 to 18:00. The Haad Rin Queen leaves Bangrak at 17:00 for ฿200, and night speedboats run from Bangrak on party nights for ฿600 to ฿1,400. From Thong Sala a shared songthaew costs ฿150 to ฿200.
Yes. OXA runs a Friday jungle party from ฿400, Eden Garden is free every Saturday, Half Moon Festival and Jungle Experience publish their own dates, and the bars in Thong Sala, Srithanu and Haad Rin open nightly.
The official Full Moon Party pages state no age limit. Thai alcohol venues commonly require guests to be 20 or older, so carry ID.
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