Landscapes and living conditions

1 of 7 · The mountain · Chiang Mai

The slopes of Doi Suthep are hardly built on

The plan does not want to encourage settlement on slopes steeper than 35 degrees. The market got there first: above three hundred and eighty metres, on the slopes, we track only 12 developments. At the foot of the mountain the asking price is 58,609 ฿ (€1,527) per m²; on the plain, 31,725 ฿ (€827).

developments tracked on the slopes

12

฿ per m² at the foot of the mountain

58,609 ฿/m²

2 of 7 · Air · two seasons

More than one development in two that we track lives through an air-control season

Every year the plan puts Chiang Mai in a pollution control zone from February to May, and Bangkok from November to March. Our 808 developments in Chiang Mai and 3,749 in Bangkok are in it: 57 % of everything we track.

% of our developments in a seasonal control zone

57%

3 of 7 · The river · the central plain

Before Bangkok, the flood spreads over the fields

Going down the Chao Phraya, the plan counts 11 retention plains and works where floodwater is held before reaching the capital, including Pa Mok and Phak Hai. They are farmland that doubles as a reservoir.

4 of 7 · The city · Bangkok

Bangkok, a plain a few metres above the water, rises along the river

Our 3,749 Bangkok developments stand at a median 6 m above sea level, and the plan counts 35 sites exposed to the hundred-year flood in Bangkok and its periphery. Along the Chao Phraya, the city rises: 61 % of riverside condominiums have thirty floors or more, against 23 % elsewhere.

m median altitude of our Bangkok developments

6 m

% of riverside condos with thirty floors or more

61%

5 of 7 · Holding water · the country

Three sponge cities by 2032, six more by 2037

A sponge city is designed to hold rainwater rather than drain it away. The plan starts with Bangkok, Pattaya and Hat Yai, then Chiang Mai, Phuket and four other cities. Meanwhile, it protects 100 urban sites from floods by 2027, 235 by 2032 and 370 by 2037.

urban sites protected from floods, cumulative target

370

6 of 7 · The hills · Phuket

On Phuket's hills, the view is paid for where the plan counts landslides

Above sixty metres, our 64 developments on the island ask a median 94,917 ฿ (€2,473) per m²; near sea level, 83,525 ฿ (€2,177). The plan counts 98 of the country's 214 landslide-exposed sites in the South, Phuket included, and does not encourage settlement on slopes steeper than 35 degrees.

฿ per m² above sixty metres

94,917 ฿/m²

฿ per m² near sea level

83,525 ฿/m²

7 of 7 · The sea · Phuket

Read the shoreline before you buy

In Phuket, 10 % of our developments are within 300 m of a beach. The plan lists Phuket's coast among the moderate and low erosion segments still untreated, and aims to bring the treated share of coastline to 95 % by 2027.

% of our Phuket developments within three hundred metres of a beach

10%