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Samui Price Index

What things cost on Koh Samui

Typical prices in Thai baht from our sourced money guides, converted to your currency, plus a calculator for your whole trip.

At a glance

  • Street food dish฿60–150per dish
  • Local beer฿60–180per beer
  • Scooter rental, 125cc฿140–350per day
  • Grab or Bolt ride฿80–400per trip

Trip budget calculator

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Converted with the ECB reference rate of 13 Nov 2026. For information only: your bank or exchange booth will use its own rate.

The price index

Ranges, not quotes. Prices change with season and area: tourist areas such as Chaweng cost more than villages. Every row links to its guide and sources.

Eat and drink

  • Street food dish

    per dish

    ฿60–150

    ≈ US$1.8–US$4.4

    Pad thai, fried rice, papaya salad at stalls and night markets. Cash only. Street food meal ›

  • Local Thai restaurant meal

    per person

    ฿120–300

    ≈ US$3.5–US$8.8

    Simple sit-down meal per person. Village restaurants are cheaper than tourist areas. Local Thai restaurant meal ›

  • Western restaurant meal

    per person

    ฿200–500

    ≈ US$5.9–US$15

    Café or restaurant meal per person. Imported food carries an island markup. Western / international restaurant meal ›

  • Local beer

    per beer

    ฿60–180

    ≈ US$1.8–US$5.3

    Convenience store or simple bar at the low end, Chaweng bars and beach clubs at the top. Beer and drinks ›

Getting around

Rooms (per night, per room)

For orientation only. Peak season (December to February) can be 40–80% higher, and quoted room rates often exclude 7% VAT plus a service charge.

Fees, money and phone

Bars use a log scale from ฿10 to ฿10,000, so cheap and expensive items fit on one line.

Trip budget calculator

Adds up the ranges above for your trip. Flights, transfers, tours and shopping are not included.

Style
Getting around

Estimated total

฿7,300–20,000

≈ US$215–US$590

฿520–1,450 per person per day

  • Rooms฿2,450–8,400
  • Food฿2,500–6,300
  • Drinks฿840–2,500
  • Getting around฿900–1,800
  • SIM cards฿600–1,000

Assumptions: 7 nights, 1 room (two people per room). Budget = three street food dishes a day and a guesthouse; mid-range = one street food dish, one local Thai and one Western meal a day and a mid-range hotel.

1 scooter (two people per scooter), cheapest of the day, week and month rates; fuel extra.

For comparison: one 2026 budget guide estimates about ฿1,200–2,100 a day for a backpacker-style trip.

An estimate from published ranges, not a quote.

Three ways to pay less

  1. Check the Grab or Bolt price before you agree a taxi fare, and confirm it is the total for everyone.

  2. The ATM fee is the same for ฿1,000 or ฿20,000, so withdraw larger amounts less often and pay in THB.

  3. Night markets are the cheapest places to eat. Bring small notes: stalls take cash only.

Where these numbers come from

Every price on this page is taken from one of our money and cost guides. Each guide cites the travel guides, local sites and cost-of-living data it is based on, and the date it was checked.

If a guide changes, this page changes with it: a number that no longer appears in its guide is removed automatically. We do not collect live prices from shops.

How we check facts ›

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