Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon flight

Flights from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon start at €59.73 and take 5h 46m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon starts at €59.73 and takes 5h 46m door to door, run by 2 operators over 590 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 12 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 46mDoor to door
  • 2h 6mMoving
  • €79.79 to €206.64From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 97.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€79.79 to €206.64 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €206.64Thu24
  2. about €158.26Fri25
  3. about €163.57Sat26
  4. about €123.45Sun27
  5. about €109.88Mon28
  6. about €107.52Tue29
  7. about €96.90Wed30
  8. about €95.13Thu1
  9. about €88.64Fri2
  10. about €95.72Sat3
  11. about €97.49Sun4
  12. about €87.46Mon5
  13. about €83.92Tue6
  14. about €79.79Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 12 October 2026

Cheapest€59.73
  1. Nok Air NA709807:301h08:30Chiang Mai International Airport CNXUdon Thani International Airport UTH
  2. การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย S-439910:131h 6m11:19Udon Thani Railway StationSakon Nakhon station

Changes at Udon Thani, with 103 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 5h 46mCO2 97.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Nok Air740 km/hFixed fareNot published
การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

The flight gets you into Sakon Nakhon. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Sakon Nakhon for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €59.1490 days
  2. €63.2760 days
  3. €67.9945 days
  4. €76.2530 days
  5. €71.5321 days
  6. €79.7914 days
  7. €96.907 days
  8. €163.573 days
  9. €206.641 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €59.14.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 249 percent. The dearest point is €206.64, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €97.49Sun
  2. €87.46Mon
  3. €83.92Tue
  4. €79.79Wed
  5. €95.13Thu
  6. €88.64Fri
  7. €95.72Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Chiang Mai

Air
  • CNX

Sakon Nakhon

Air
  • SNO
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 590 km against 575 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Udon Thani. The gap between arriving and leaving is 103 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 9 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Chiang Mai at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon take?

The Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon takes 5h 46m door to door, of which 2h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 590 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon cost?

The Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon starts at €59.73 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €59.73. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon?

2 operators run the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon: Nok Air, การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon use?

The Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon leaves from Chiang Mai International Airport CNX and arrives at Sakon Nakhon station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon?

Fares for the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €59.14. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 249 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon produce?

The Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon produces about 97.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 590 km, which works out at roughly 165 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon?

Operators on the Flight from Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 46m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chiang Mai to Sakon Nakhon on 23 September 2026: 590 km of route against 575 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €59.73, and 5h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from SNO into Sakon Nakhon is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Sakon Nakhon

Settled in advance, so the ride into Sakon Nakhon costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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