Thailand Temple APIs and Wat Data.

Canonical Buddhist wat registries, religious-site catalogs, ancient-monument APIs, tourist temple metadata, OSM/Wikidata enrichment, and temple intelligence schema.

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Religion, culture, and heritage

DASTA CBT Thailand API

Community-based tourism attractions, attraction details, events, festivals, accommodations, and recommended routes. Useful for local temple/community culture routes.

Web API
Religion, culture, and heritage

DOPA religious and important-place geospatial datasets

Administrative and important-place datasets useful for province/district/subdistrict reconciliation, official place names, LAT/LONG, and ancient/religious-place context.

JSON/XLS/geospatial resources where exposed through government catalogs
Religion, culture, and heritage

DRA Buddhist religious site list

Department of Religious Affairs Buddhist temple list and statistics layer with region, temple name. Temple type, sect. Wisungkhamsima, subdistrict. District, province. And postal code fields.

CKAN/DataStore, CSV/TSV/JSON/XML where exposed
Religion, culture, and heritage

DRA non-Buddhist religious site datasets

Religion-wide context for mosques, Hindu/Brahmin sites, Sikh sites, Catholic churches, and other registered religious-site datasets. Use to avoid treating every religious place as a Buddhist wat.

CKAN/DataStore, XLS/PDF/CSV where exposed
Religion, culture, and heritage

Fine Arts ancient monuments API

Best official source for ancient monuments, temple ruins, historical parks, registered heritage places, images, coordinates, and cultural-art context.

Open Data/API, GIS/catalog resources
Religion, culture, and heritage

Fine Arts important Buddha images data

Important Buddha images and cultural heritage records that can enrich major temple and historical-park pages.

Open Data/API/catalog resources
Religion, culture, and heritage

Ministry of Culture religious places datasets

Cultural and religious-place datasets, central cultural data, cultural heritage, and religious-site reports. Use as narrative/cultural context rather than canonical wat identity.

Open-data/catalog/API/report surfaces where exposed
Religion, culture, and heritage

ONAB temple count dashboard

Current Buddhist temple count and classification context by sect, royal/common status, and wisungkhamsima status. Use as a count/status layer, not as a full POI record.

Public dashboard/search surface
Religion, culture, and heritage

ONAB temple histories and abandoned temple datasets

Temple history corpus, abandoned temples, central religious property, geospatial religious-property records, meditation centers, and legal/procedure documents. Slow-changing but valuable for history and active/abandoned distinction.

Catalog resources, XLSX/DOCX/PDF/CSV where exposed
Religion, culture, and heritage

ONAB temple registry

Canonical National Office of Buddhism source type for active Buddhist temple identity: temple code, official name. Type, sect. Province, district. Subdistrict, establishment date. And wisungkhamsima fields where exposed.

ONAB catalog/search UI, XLSX downloads, dashboard surfaces where exposed
Religion, culture, and heritage

OpenStreetMap Thailand temple POIs

Geospatial enrichment for amenity=place_of_worship, religion=buddhist. Building=temple, historic=ruins. Tourism=attraction, names. Aliases, opening_hours. Website, access. Polygons, and nearby access.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Religion, culture, and heritage

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Thailand temples

QIDs, multilingual labels, aliases, images, Commons categories, coordinates, heritage links, and Wikipedia sitelinks for notable temples, ruins, shrines, and royal temples.

SPARQL/API and Wikimedia Commons media
Tourism and travel

DNP Tourism Datasets

Department of National Parks tourism, attraction, fee, and visitor datasets useful for park-access context, seasonal closure notes, and conservation-area planning. Treat as park and attraction support data unless a stable daily current closure feed is verified.

Public catalog resources, CSV, and API-style downloads where exposed
Tourism and travel

Tourism Authority of Thailand API

Attractions, stays, routes, events, and tourism services through the Tourism Authority developer surfaces. Keep the classic developer portal and newer tatdataapi.io documentation in sync before describing this as one stable API contract.

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