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Flights from Edinburgh to Bangkok
Everything worth knowing before you book this route — how far it is, how long you will be in the air, whether a direct flight exists from Edinburgh, and what the fare is doing.
How long is the flight from Edinburgh to Bangkok?
The great-circle distance from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Bangkok is 5,955 miles. Flown nonstop, that works out at roughly 11h 33m in the air, including taxi time at both ends.
Expect the return leg to differ. Flying eastbound on the way out, you are pushed along by the jet stream, so the outbound and inbound block times on this route differ by up to 45 minutes. Airlines schedule for it — it is not a delay.
Can you fly Edinburgh to Bangkok direct?
No nonstop from Edinburgh
The nearest direct flights leave from Manchester (about 190 miles away) and London Heathrow (330 miles). From Edinburgh itself it is a one-stop trip. The connection is worth choosing rather than accepting: a European or Gulf hub usually beats backtracking to Heathrow, because it keeps you out of a domestic leg and a terminal change, and it is frequently the cheaper ticket as well.
What it costs from Edinburgh
The cheapest return we have measured from Edinburgh to Bangkok is £624, flying out 7 Oct and back 20 Oct. That is this airport's own best week, found by searching it separately from the other nine — every UK airport wins on a different date.
Price EDI → BKK on KiwiWhen to book
Bangkok has three seasons rather than two, and the middle one is the reason people get it wrong. The south-west monsoon brings the wet half of the year, but the rain here is not the all-day drizzle a British reader pictures — it arrives as a violent hour in the late afternoon and then stops, and the city carries on around it. Between the rains and the cool season sits the hot stretch, when the air is at its heaviest and walking the temples becomes genuinely punishing.
Seasons, prices and the full Bangkok guideLanding in Bangkok
You lose 7 hours flying out. Eastbound is the harder direction to adjust to, because you are asking your body to fall asleep earlier than it wants to. Book an arrival that lets you stay up until local evening rather than napping.
| Airport | BKK, Suvarnabhumi, forty-five minutes east and connected to the city by the Airport Rail Link for about a pound. Don Mueang (DMK) is the second airport, north of the city, used by regional low-cost carriers — if you are connecting onward within Asia, check you are not landing at one and departing from the other, which is an hour of city traffic between them. |
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| Currency | Thai baht. Cards work in malls, hotels and larger restaurants; street food, markets, boats and most taxis want cash. Use the bank ATMs rather than the standalone ones and expect a fixed withdrawal fee of around 220 baht regardless of amount, so draw larger sums less often. |
| Language | Thai. English is common in hotels, malls and anywhere touristed, and thin among taxi drivers and street vendors. Have your destination written in Thai or shown on a phone map — the transliteration of street names varies enough to cause real confusion. |
Where to stay in Bangkok
Most visitors stay in Sukhumvit or Riverside. The list below is filtered to places rated 9+ by guests and sorted by price, with dates already filled in — change them for your own trip.
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