Pattaya Events and Annual Festivals
- Chinese New Years - Celebrated by mostly Thai-Chinese immigrants that centuries ago migrated to Thailand, Chinese New Years is celebrated every year on various days between January and February. Chinese New Years is celebrated with food, song, dance, lion dances, dragon parades and fireworks!
- Burapa Pattaya Bike Week - One of Pattaya's and Thailand's biggest attractions! Draws International crowds with local and international live music concerts! Burapa Pattaya Bike Week definitely is Asia's biggest motorcycle festival!
- Pattaya International Music Festival - Held in March of every year, this festival attacts huge crowds to Beach Road and Bali Hai Pier with its combination of Local and International bands
- Pattaya Songkran festival - Called Wan Lai by the Thai, Pattaya Songkran Festival takes place each year in mid April. It differs from most other Songkran festivals of Thailand in several aspects. It lasts several days longer and, besides the water throwing, the event includes beauty pageants, musical performances, cultural shows, fireworks, and water sports competition.
- Top of the Gulf Regatta - Massive Sailing event held annually at the end of April
- Miss Tiffany Universe - Annual beauty pageant held mid-May each year catering to transponders. This has massive television coverage in Thailand.
- Pattaya Marathon - Its running in Pattaya. The Pattaya Marathon holds many add
- Pattaya Classical Guitar Festival - Annual October festival held by the Pattaya Guitar society
- Loi Krathong - Annual light festival usually in November held during the full moon of the twelfth month in the traditional thai lunar calendar is celebrated in Pattaya, as in the rest of the country, that evening with people floating krathongs (small, candle-lit floats made from elaborately folded banana leaves) on the waters, as well as releasing khom loi (candle-fire hot air balloons) in to the night sky.
- Miss International Queen election - a yearly international pageant for transgender persons and transsexuals held in November. Draws massive television crowds!
- Pattaya Pride - Annual Gay pride festival, is held each year at the end of November with a series of parties and events, culminating with a float parade on 1 December