Lampang Destination Guide

Updated 6th Sep 2026

Lampang is a province and provincial capital in upper northern Thailand, reached by a scheduled air route into Lampang Airport (LPT). This guide covers that route, the province, Chae Son National Park, Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, and the state elephant facility in Hang Chat district.

Getting to Lampang by air

Thai AirAsia (FD) operates the scheduled service between Lampang Airport and Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) in Bangkok, based on the Department of Airports' published flight data, which currently runs to February 2026. The route runs in both directions, with its own page each way: Bangkok to Lampang and Lampang to Bangkok.

The route lands at Don Mueang, not Suvarnabhumi, which matters if your onward connection is booked from Bangkok's other airport. Chiang Mai province is one of Lampang's northern neighbours, so travellers already there can reach Lampang overland instead of flying.

Lampang province

Wikipedia's entry for the province puts Lampang's population at around 704,000 in 2024, across an area of around 12,500 square kilometres in Thailand's upper north. The provincial capital sits in the Wang River valley, surrounded by mountains, with Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces to the north.

The same entry puts the local economy on ceramics and on mining: ball clay, china stone and lignite. It counts more than 200 ceramics factories in and around Mueang Lampang district, and places open-pit lignite mining and a large coal-fired power station in Mae Mo district, so parts of Lampang are industrial rather than scenic.

Chae Son National Park

Chae Son is Thailand's 58th national park, designated in 1988. It crosses four districts of Lampang province: Chae Hom, Mueang Pan, Wang Nuea and Mueang Lampang. The Department of National Parks puts it about 75 kilometres north of Lampang town, reached by highways 1035 and 1287.

The department's own page for the park gives its area as 480,000 rai, or 768 square kilometres, and describes:

• a hot spring of about 2,400 square metres, fed by nine natural vents, with water at 39 to 47 degrees Celsius and a flow of about 15 litres a second
• waterfalls named Chae Son, Mae Khun, Mae Piak, Mae Muan and Mae Mon
• caves named Pha Ngam and Luk Kao
• a shop open 08:00 to 17:00

Wikipedia's entry puts the Chae Son falls at six tiers and a total height of 150 metres, and lists Phayre's leaf monkey, sambar deer, the Asian golden cat and red junglefowl among the park's wildlife. The most recent visitor figure it gives is 248,381, from 2019.

Wat Phra That Lampang Luang

Wat Phra That Lampang Luang is a Lanna-style temple in Ko Kha district, about 15 kilometres from Lampang town. Wikipedia's entry dates its construction to the 15th century, and notes a local legend of older origins that it does not treat as established.

Its listed features include a gilded, bell-shaped chedi and the Wiharn Luang, a wooden vihara with three tiered roofs and carved gables, doors and windows. Local tradition holds that a Buddha relic is enshrined in the chedi, and a light-refraction effect is known locally as the "Shade of Phra That".

The elephant facility near Lampang

Lampang has a state elephant care and training facility in Hang Chat district. The Government Public Relations Department names it as the National Elephant Institute, run by the Forest Industry Organisation, a Thai state enterprise. Wikipedia's entry records that name as having been adopted in 2002, and notes that Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is associated with the institute.

Frequently asked questions

Which airline flies to Lampang?

Thai AirAsia operates the scheduled service between Lampang and Don Mueang, based on the Department of Airports' published flight data, which currently runs to February 2026.

Can I reach Lampang from Chiang Mai without flying?

Yes. Chiang Mai province borders Lampang to the north, so an overland journey is an alternative to flying for travellers already based there.