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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.

14 sources Updated 2026-05-11 Download JSON

Best use for travel intelligence

For travel decisions, temple data separates legal Buddhist wat identity from shrines, ancient ruins, royal temples, tourist attractions, and mapped POIs so visitors get the right page, etiquette, opening, and route context.

What this changes for travelers

  • ONAB: Canonical Buddhist wat identity, active/abandoned context, temple codes, sect, temple type, and legal fields.
  • DRA: Religious-site records that help distinguish Buddhist temples from mosques, churches, Hindu sites, Sikh sites, and other religious places.
  • Fine Arts: Ancient temple ruins, registered monuments, heritage status, important Buddha images, and historical-park context.
  • TAT / DASTA: Tourist-facing attraction, community route, opening/contact, event, and route metadata for visitor pages.
  • OSM / Wikidata / Commons: Coordinates, polygons, aliases, QIDs, images, multilingual labels, and map/media enrichment.

Best sources to start with

  • Best canonical Buddhist wat spine: ONAB temple registry for legal Buddhist temple identity, temple codes, sect, type, establishment, and wisungkhamsima fields where exposed.
  • Best public religious-site mirror: DRA Buddhist and non-Buddhist religious-site datasets for CKAN/DataStore fields, postal/admin metadata, and religion-wide distinctions.
  • Best heritage/ruin source: Fine Arts Department ancient monuments and important Buddha image data for registered monuments, temple ruins, historical parks, images, and cultural context.
  • Best tourist layer: TAT and DASTA for tourist-facing temple attractions, community routes, events, opening/contact context, and recommended route metadata.
  • Best geospatial/media enrichment: OpenStreetMap/Overpass for coordinates and polygons; Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons for QIDs, multilingual aliases, images, and Commons categories.
Official / agency sources

7 of 14 sources look official or agency-backed.

API/feed candidates

11 sources expose API, feed, CKAN/DataStore, JSON, XML, or similar machine-readable access.

Near-real-time signals

1 sources have live, hourly, event-driven, warning, or frequent update language.

Developer note

Use ONAB as the wat identity spine, DRA for religious-site fields, Fine Arts for ancient monuments, TAT/DASTA for tourist/community metadata, OSM for coordinates, and Wikidata/Commons for IDs and media.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: This cluster is strongest when several sources describe the same traveler problem from different angles: official context, machine-readable feeds, and slower fallback documentation.

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 layer 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, accessibility, 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 operational closure feed is verified.

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

Tourism Authority of Thailand API

Attractions, accommodation, 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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