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Yaowarat Gold Shops Data.
Yaowarat gold-shop pages should combine the national GTA reference quote with shop/location enrichment, business records, hours, and buyback or purity caveats.
Published Thai retail reference
Bangkok / Yaowarat gold reference context
THB per 1 baht-weight of 96.5% Thai gold
Gold bar sell: ฿70,500. Gold bar buy: ฿70,300. Reference price is national; local shop variation comes from spread, workmanship, receipt detail, and buyback terms.
- 1 baht-weight = 15.244g
- 1 salung = 0.25 baht-weight
- Thai shops quote in THB per baht-weight
- Baht-weight is a gold weight unit, not ฿1 currency.
- Thai 96.5% domestic gold is not the same unit or purity as raw USD per troy ounce benchmarks.
- Ornament pricing can include workmanship or premium.
Why Yaowarat leads
Bangkok / Yaowarat is the strongest public gold-buying context in Thailand because comparison shopping is denser, receipt expectations are clearer, and buyback questions are easier to ask across multiple nearby shops. That still does not turn the national quote into a guaranteed final shop price.
Where to compare shops in Thailand
These are buying-context cards, not different official city prices. The national Gold Traders Association quote is shared across Thailand; local difference comes from spread, workmanship, receipts, and buyback convenience.
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Bangkok / Yaowarat is the strongest gold-buying context right now if you still compare multiple shops against the national quote.
Current page focus Chiang Maigood
Chiang Mai is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Treat Chiang Mai as a convenience market and compare against the national GTA quote before agreeing to local ornament premiums. Hat Yaigood
Hat Yai is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Treat Hat Yai as a southern convenience market and keep the national quote visible while you compare local spread, receipt, and buyback terms. Phuketgood
Phuket is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Use Phuket only when convenience matters more than the widest shop comparison field, and keep the national quote visible while you compare. Pattaya / Chonburigood
Pattaya / Chonburi is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Treat Pattaya / Chonburi as a convenience context and ask directly about spread, workmanship, and buyback terms before paying.Gold-shopping entity anchors
These are graph entities, not shop directories. They hold the live quote, buying-friction context, source trail, and related travel pages behind the public gold layer.
Yaowarat gold district
Bangkok's densest public gold-shopping anchor, where the national Thai quote meets the clearest comparison-shopping and buyback context.
Current anchor. Market districtChiang Mai gold shopping
Regional gold-shopping anchor for Chiang Mai when convenience matters more than the deepest comparison-shopping field.
Open the entity record. Market districtHat Yai gold shopping
Southern regional gold-shopping anchor for Hat Yai when the trip already centers on the lower south and Bangkok-level comparison density is not the goal.
Open the entity record. Market districtPhuket gold shopping
Tourist-market gold-shopping anchor for Phuket, where convenience is real but the national quote still matters more than any local headline price.
Open the entity record. Market districtPattaya / Chonburi gold shopping
Convenience-first gold-shopping anchor for Pattaya / Chonburi when the trip is already on the east coast and Bangkok-level comparison density is not the goal.
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Decision fields
The page should answer what the source can prove, what it cannot prove, and what must be verified before money changes hands.
| Field | Answer |
|---|---|
| Page type | gold shop map |
| Primary use | Map Bangkok / Yaowarat gold shops and explain what city buying context can and cannot prove. |
| Updated | 2026-05-11 |
| Core caveat | OSM/POI records can be stale |
- Bangkok gold-shop clusters
- shop location pages
- tourist risk notes
- business validation
- OSM/POI records can be stale
- DBD is not inventory proof
- buyback terms and workmanship fees are shop-specific
- Gold Traders Association
- DBD
- OSM
- TGJTA
- Google/Foursquare only if licensed
- AMLO/OCPB/BOT
Canonical record checklist
Material, purity/species/variety, Thai gold-baht or carat unit, price type, timestamp, HS code, trade direction, country partner, lab report number, treatment/origin, company ID, shop/market coordinates, standard/regulation, source URL, confidence, and last verified date.