The temple roof and skyline. Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Busan to Chiang Mai

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Busan to Chiang Mai. From €305.76, fastest 8h 4m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Busan to Chiang Mai runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:11 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €311.07 and €357.09, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 8h 4m over 3,569 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€311.07 to €357.09

  • 202%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Busan

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:11First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 6Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €626.72Tue15
  2. about €554.15Wed16
  3. about €783.66Thu17
  4. about €578.34Fri18
  5. about €531.14Sat19
  6. about €571.26Sun20
  7. about €498.10Mon21
  8. about €361.81Tue22
  9. about €364.17Wed23
  10. about €453.26Thu24
  11. about €423.17Fri25
  12. about €460.34Sat26
  13. about €401.34Sun27
  14. about €357.09Mon28
  15. about €309.89Tue29
  16. about €311.07Wed30
  17. about €371.25Thu1
  18. about €341.16Fri2
  19. about €361.22Sat3
  20. about €315.20Sun4
  21. about €305.76Mon5

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Chiang Mai. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Chiang Mai for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Chiang Mai Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Busan to Chiang Mai

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

  1. €318.1590 days
  2. €321.6960 days
  3. €347.6545 days
  4. €259.7430 days
  5. €305.7621 days
  6. €357.0914 days
  7. €498.107 days
  8. €783.663 days
  9. €626.721 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €259.74.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 202 percent. The most expensive point is €783.66, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€783.66€259.741371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Busan to Chiang Mai and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

2 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

3,569 km

3,465 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.

Who lives at each end

3,285,147127,240

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

BusanBusanChiang MaiChiang Mai
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,569 km against 3,465 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 Hangzhou, Taipa, Guangzhou, Shanghai. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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.

The fare from CNX into Chiang Mai is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Chiang Mai

Settled in advance, so the ride into Chiang Mai costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Chiang Mai Railway Station

Most of the points near Chiang Mai Railway Station open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Busan to Chiang Mai

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 it take to get from Busan to Chiang Mai?

The fastest journey from Busan to Chiang Mai takes 8h 4m door to door, of which 5h 4m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 8h 29m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Busan to Chiang Mai?

The cheapest fare from Busan to Chiang Mai is €305.76, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €465.65. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Busan to Chiang Mai?

The cheapest way from Busan to Chiang Mai is by flight, at €357.09 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 8h 14m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Busan to Chiang Mai?

Fares from Busan to Chiang Mai bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €259.74. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 202 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Busan to Chiang Mai?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Busan to Chiang Mai, at €357.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Busan to Chiang Mai?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Busan to Chiang Mai, at €251.48 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Busan to Chiang Mai?

2 operators sell services from Busan to Chiang Mai across 1 mode: Eastar Jet, Jeju Air. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Busan to Chiang Mai?

33 percent of the services we sell from Busan to Chiang Mai are direct. The rest connect at Hangzhou, Taipa, Guangzhou, Shanghai, with about 59 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Busan to Chiang Mai use?

Services from Busan to Chiang Mai by flight leave from Busan PUS and arrive at Chiang Mai CNX. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Busan to Chiang Mai?

0 of the 2 operators we sell from Busan to Chiang Mai allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Busan to Chiang Mai on September 14, 2026: 3569 km of route against 3465 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €305.76, and 8h 4m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Chiang Mai is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Chiang Mai and across Thailand

Day trips that leave Chiang Mai in the morning and cover a good part of Thailand by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Busan reaches 55 places in 15 countries on services we hold, over distances from 94 to 4,574 km. Chiang Mai reaches 42 places in 11 countries, from 77 to 4,920 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Busan

  • 55Places you can leave for
  • 15Countries
  • 23Operators

Arriving in Chiang Mai

Leaving Chiang Mai

  • 42Places you can leave for
  • 11Countries
  • 28Operators

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