enjoythai.land

Restaurants, nightlife, and wellness

OpenStreetMap Thailand nightlife venues.

Best free nightlife geometry and nearby fallback layer for bars, pubs, clubs, and music venues. Coverage varies sharply by city and district and is not a trust, safety, or quality guarantee.

Public OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=bar, amenity=pub, amenity=nightclub, amenity=music_venue, opening_hours, and contact tags where mapped Free open data under ODbL attribution/share-alike terms Daily/weekly for nightlife districts; weekly nationally Open source
Runtime role

Catalog only

Access class

Public

Access type

OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=bar, amenity=pub, amenity=nightclub, amenity=music_venue, opening_hours, and contact tags where mapped

Free status

Free open data under ODbL attribution/share-alike terms

Cadence

Daily/weekly for nightlife districts; weekly nationally

Last verified

2026-05-11

Access class note

Public web, file, catalog, or documented endpoint access with no paid gate implied in the source profile.

Used in layers

page reference only

Useful fields

venue name, venue type, cuisine or style, neighborhood or district, lat/lon, address, phone, website, opening hours, business status, ratings or review context where licensed, hotel-area fit, late-return note, source ID

Reliability rating

Medium-high for discovery and context; operational reliability depends on endpoint stability.

Runtime truth

Runtime role

Catalog only

Production ready

Not yet

Entity scope

No runtime entity scope yet.

Observation scope

No live observation ingestion yet.

Decision scope

Not wired into active decisions yet.

Runtime note

Profiled in the atlas and public pages, but not yet connected to live graph computation.

How this helps travel recommendations

Turns restaurants, nightlife, and spas into source-backed decisions about which named venues fit the route, how much return or rain friction exists, what kind of neighborhood the venue lives in, and which source is really proving location, hours, or commercial familiarity.

Developer reference

Best endpoint

Use TAT and Thai SELECT for official context, OSM for free venue geometry, Google Places and other licensed POI layers for named venues and hours, and Wongnai-style local discovery only as clearly labeled commercial context.

Recommended refresh

Refresh daily, or more often only when the source publishes explicit current-status fields.

Travel scoring role

Turns restaurants, nightlife, and spas into source-backed decisions about which named venues fit the route, how much return or rain friction exists, what kind of neighborhood the venue lives in, and which source is really proving location, hours, or commercial familiarity.

Comparable / backup source

TAT venue context, Thai SELECT, OSM, Google Places, Wongnai, destination food pages, accommodation pages, taxi and safety layers, and local correction notes once a venue workflow exists.

Example request

# Verify the documented venue endpoint before production use.
curl -L "https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dnightclub" -H "Accept: application/json"

Failure modes

  • There is no single public all-venues Thailand API.
  • Public tourism pages do not prove current hours, line length, or nightlife mood.
  • Commercial POI and review sources have licensing, caching, and pricing limits.
  • OpenStreetMap is strong for geometry and fallback logic, but coverage and recency vary by district.
  • Nightlife and spa convenience depend heavily on hotel base, late transport, noise, and next-day plans, which pure venue APIs rarely answer.
  • Geospatial layers can be large, tiled, or projection-specific.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: Treat this profile as strongest for the exact role named above. It is weaker when the source is stretched into live availability, legal proof, or traveler-fit decisions it does not directly prove.