The Thai Calendar

The official Thai calendar is calculated from the beginning of the Buddhist Era in 543 BC. The year 2000 AD is therefore 2543 BE. The year is subdivided into 12 months, the same as the Roman calendar.

Thailand Standard Time is 7 hours ahead of Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time (London). At noon in Bangkok the time is 5.00 a.m. in London, midnight in New York (except during Daylight Savings Time), 9.00 p.m. the previous day in Los Angeles (except during Daylight Savings Time), 3.00 p.m. in Sydney and 5.00 p.m. in Auckland.