RubbaJohnny Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Where for a breath of fresh air ? With no action taken on annual burning the air quality up North is becoming unbearable and hazardous. 824 at Phayao this morning.Most of Phayao C Rai and C Mai have been over hazard levels in recent weeks Other than relocate where would be the best province for fresh air holiday during the burning month of March. I would want to avoid the violent areas of deep south and Bangkok. I would hope the Gulf coast or islands would at least have fresh sea breezes, or would Andaman side be preferable in terms of air quality? or may deepest Esan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMartinHandyman Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 If you mean Issan cross that off you’re list due to burning rice fields and general brush clearing burns. Just my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhuh Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Plus they burn their plastic in Isan. Air in Korat, Khon Khaen is quite bad. Some provinces like Khonkhaen have bad air quality in every village (if the province grows a lot of sugar cane, which is burnt before harvesting). Southern provinces are ok, your best bet. Andamsan sometimes (but only sometimes) gets the haze from Indonesia, will start soon. Doesn't 7/11 in CM sell bottled breathing air? I heard it's even cheaper than bottled drinking water. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Bang Kon Tien, (Bangkok Sea Side) If you dislike BKK a few hundred meters further East, Maha Chai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrilled Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 A breath of hot air is more like it.Fresh air in Thailand?I wouldn't have any idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotpoom Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 I have a beachside condo, 1 hour from Pattaya,...plenty of fresh air? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Download the 'AirVisual' app to your phone or laptop. It shows prevalent air currents and air quality indices for Thailand and global locations. I live in Chaam and the sea breeze is nice here and AQL is low. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappap Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 11 hours ago, uhuh said: Plus they burn their plastic in Isan. Air in Korat, Khon Khaen is quite bad. Some provinces like Khonkhaen have bad air quality in every village (if the province grows a lot of sugar cane, which is burnt before harvesting). Southern provinces are ok, your best bet. Andamsan sometimes (but only sometimes) gets the haze from Indonesia, will start soon. Doesn't 7/11 in CM sell bottled breathing air? I heard it's even cheaper than bottled drinking water. Yep agree, I live in Krabi, clear and clean air, Indonesia is just a haze and the sea breeze soon clears it and very minimalistic, worse air is in Krabi town at rush hour...well rush fifteen mins!! Other side, Khanom etc just as good...but there's enough of us here already!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertson468 Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 I have my own Villa and a small Resort here on Koh Samui. Yes it's hot, but this is Thailand and its is Summer time after all! But we are only 300 meters from the sea and many of our Guests love it to bits, some staying as long as 6 months and returning year on year. Good luck in finding somewhere that is considerabley further South than Bangkok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 (edited) Nice and clear in Ko Lanta this morning, AQI 25. The islands just visible are some 20km offshore. Edited March 26, 2019 by Stocky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbooboo Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Hmmm..... clean air in Thailand doesnt exist. Fresh air?.... in Thailand would depend on your definition of “ fresh”, I suggest unlikely to be found in Bangkok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlandtday Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, Stocky said: Nice and clear in Ko Lanta this morning, AQI 25. The islands just visible are some 20km offshore. yeah the south is the only remaining area in Thailand with decent air quality for much of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecyclist Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 How about Chantaburi :Often called the most livable city in Thailand (by Thais though : 'na yoo') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 The air quality in Pattaya/Jomtien has been "OK" ish for the most part ......good compared to BKK and excellent compared to the "burning fields" provinces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 (edited) Take a look... Mostly noon readings as of today: You might also ask -- where do you NOT want to be??? Edited March 26, 2019 by TallGuyJohninBKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 (edited) Regional haze map as of 9 am today: Dense smoke haze was observed over many parts of Myanmar and in northern Thailand and Lao PDR. The prevailing winds have been blowing the smoke haze to northern Viet Nam. http://www.weather.gov.sg/warning-haze-information Edited March 26, 2019 by TallGuyJohninBKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unify Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 I'm in Phuket, and this morning read AQI 41 on my balcony. I'm happy with that. Be aware that the monitoring station in Phuket does not include pm2.5, so when you see Phuket reading 24 on aqi.org, it's not. It's been averaging about 100 the past three weeks. I've been traveling the south of Thailand (Krabi, Hua Hin, Phuket) and have a meter with me. I'd have to say I'm disappointed in the air quality of what are supposed to be the cleanest areas in Thailand. Beats the hell out of Chiang Mai though, at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Unify said: I'm in Phuket, and this morning read AQI 41 on my balcony. I'm happy with that. Be aware that the monitoring station in Phuket does not include pm2.5, so when you see Phuket reading 24 on aqi.org, it's not. It's been averaging about 100 the past three weeks. I've been traveling the south of Thailand (Krabi, Hua Hin, Phuket) and have a meter with me. I'd have to say I'm disappointed in the air quality of what are supposed to be the cleanest areas in Thailand. Beats the hell out of Chiang Mai though, at the moment. There's more than one way to skin the pollution cat: https://www.airvisual.com/thailand/phuket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubbaJohnny Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 Thanks for the links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Koh Samui is nice, last time we had elevated PM2.5 was during Indonesian forest fires some ten years ago,lasted 5days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Christmas13 Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Try this blue.webp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlandtday Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 7 hours ago, Unify said: I'm in Phuket, and this morning read AQI 41 on my balcony. I'm happy with that. Be aware that the monitoring station in Phuket does not include pm2.5, so when you see Phuket reading 24 on aqi.org, it's not. It's been averaging about 100 the past three weeks. I've been traveling the south of Thailand (Krabi, Hua Hin, Phuket) and have a meter with me. I'd have to say I'm disappointed in the air quality of what are supposed to be the cleanest areas in Thailand. Beats the hell out of Chiang Mai though, at the moment. Looking at the airpure readings it generally looks pretty good. What are you using and what are your readings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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