Ao Nang Night Market: Hours, Prices & What to Eat

The Ao Nang night market runs every evening, all week, at Ao Nang Landmark in Khlong Haeng — stalls set up from around 4–5 pm and trade until roughly 10–11 pm, with the sweet spot from 6 pm onward. In high season it grows to 80–100 stalls, most dishes cost 50–150 baht, and two people can eat very well for 300–500 baht total. Ao Nang Landmark is near Nopparat Thara Beach; check a current map or local transport service for routing from your starting point.

In short:

• Open every night (unlike Krabi Town’s weekend-only Walking Street), roughly 4–5 pm to 10–11 pm, best from 6 pm
• 80–100 stalls in high season: grilled seafood, pad thai (50–80 baht), som tam, skewers, roti, mango sticky rice
• Two people eat well for 300–500 baht — bring cash, most stalls take nothing else
• At Ao Nang Landmark in Khlong Haeng, near Nopparat Thara Beach; confirm current transport and parking options locally
• Do a full lap before buying anything, and follow the queues of Thai customers

Thongyib Thongyod Brunch & Cafe is inside Ao Nang Landmark in Khlong Haeng. In the evening, the Landmark night market brings together food stalls and other vendors.

That daily rhythm confuses a lot of first-time visitors. People walk past at noon, see a half-empty plaza, and assume the “night market” on their map is closed down. It is not — it simply lives up to its name. Come back after dark and you will find dozens of stalls, smoke and sizzle, and a crowd that mixes tourists from the Ao Nang strip with Thai families from Khlong Haeng and Nopparat Thara.

What is Ao Nang Landmark?

Ao Nang Landmark — you will also see the name Sealay Village on signs and maps — is a mixed shopping-and-dining complex on the main road in Khlong Haeng, near Nopparat Thara Beach. Check a current map or local transport service for routing from the central Ao Nang strip.

Thongyib Thongyod is inside the complex and is open from 8:00 to 18:00. The current menu lists brunch, coffee and Thai desserts; those hours do not guarantee that every item is available. Parking for the cafe or complex is not documented in the verified cafe facts, so confirm current options locally before driving.

Ao Nang Landmark is in Khlong Haeng, near Nopparat Thara Beach. Check a current map and local transport options when planning a visit from elsewhere in Ao Nang.

What time does the Ao Nang night market open?

Stalls start setting up from around 4 to 5 pm and trade until roughly 10 or 11 pm, every evening of the week — unlike the weekend-only markets in Krabi Town. The sweet spot is from about 6 pm onward: by then everything is open, the charcoal is properly hot, and the atmosphere has arrived with the crowd. Exact times drift a little with the season — quieter and slightly shorter in the May–October low season, fuller and livelier in the November–February peak — so treat the edges as approximate.

The layout is simple: rows of food stalls with shared tables and seating in between, plus vendors selling clothes, souvenirs and beachwear around the food. It is compact enough to walk the whole market in ten minutes, which we recommend doing before you buy anything. Do a full lap, see what looks freshest and where the queues of Thai customers are, then commit.

The crowd is one of the nicest things about it. Because Khlong Haeng is a residential area, this is not a tourists-only market — local families eat here too, which keeps quality honest and prices reasonable.

Planning a market evening? Thongyib Thongyod opens at 8:00 inside Ao Nang Landmark in Khlong Haeng, near Nopparat Thara Beach. Review the current menu and check item availability. See the menu · Get directions

What should you eat at the night market?

Start with the grilled seafood — it is the market’s strongest suit, and you are a few hundred metres from the sea. The market has grown to somewhere between 80 and 100 stalls in high season, and the range is wide: classic Thai street food at the core, with seafood, grilled meats and a surprising number of international options around it. Some things to look for:

• Grilled seafood. Whole fish stuffed with lemongrass, prawns, squid on skewers — cooked over charcoal and priced by size.
• Pad thai and fried rice, cooked to order in a wok in front of you. Expect roughly 50–80 baht for a straightforward plate, more with prawns.
• Som tam (green papaya salad), pounded fresh. Say “pet nit noi” (a little spicy) unless you genuinely want the local level of heat.
• Skewers of everything — chicken satay with peanut sauce, grilled pork, meatballs. Cheap, portable, and ideal for grazing while you walk.
• Roti pancakes, the crispy-edged Thai-Muslim flatbread folded around banana, egg, chocolate or condensed milk. Southern Thailand does these especially well.
• Mango sticky rice and rolled ice cream for dessert, plus fresh fruit and smoothie stalls for something lighter. If you want to know what you are eating, we wrote a whole guide to Thai desserts — and if the golden egg-yolk sweets catch your eye, those are the ones we are named after. The current cafe menu lists a Signature Thongyib Thongyod Set. The cafe is inside the same Ao Nang Landmark complex; check current item availability if your visit depends on that set.

Most single dishes fall in the 50–150 baht range, with grilled seafood platters costing more. Two people can eat very well for 300–500 baht total. One practical note: the majority of stalls are cash-only, so bring Thai baht — there are ATMs and exchange booths along the main Ao Nang road, but queueing for one mid-craving is no fun.

Is the Ao Nang night market better than Krabi Town’s?

For convenience, yes; for atmosphere and shopping, Krabi Town Walking Street still wins. Krabi’s most famous market is held around Soi Maharaj 8 in the town centre on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings only, from around 5 pm to about 10 pm, and it is a genuinely great event: a live music stage, a big communal seating area, handicraft and souvenir stalls alongside the food, and a strong local-festival feel. Krabi Town also has a nightly riverside market near the Chao Fah pier, smaller and more food-focused.

	Ao Nang Landmark night market	Krabi Town Walking Street
Nights	Every night	Fri–Sun only
Hours	~4–5 pm to 10–11 pm	~5 pm to 10 pm
Getting there	In Ao Nang; walkable from Nopparat Thara	30–40 minutes’ drive each way
Strengths	Food range, convenience, nightly reliability	Live music, handicrafts, local-festival feel
Prices	Similar	Similar

Doing both over a week-long stay is easy to pull off: the Landmark as your easy default dinner — combinable with a beach sunset, no transport planning — and Walking Street as a weekend outing, paired with a wander along the Krabi Town riverfront. Just remember the latter is weekend-only; plenty of visitors have made the trip on a Tuesday and found an ordinary street.

Making a day of it

The Landmark’s Khlong Haeng location near Nopparat Thara Beach can fit into a day in this part of Ao Nang:

Morning: the beach. Walk Nopparat Thara early, when the light is soft and the casuarina trees throw long shade. If the tide is out, the sand flats stretch for hundreds of metres and you can walk toward the islets offshore. It is the calmest beach experience in Ao Nang.

Cafe hours and menu. Thongyib Thongyod is inside Ao Nang Landmark and is open daily from 8:00 to 18:00. The current brunch menu includes sourdough toasts, breakfast sets and smoothie bowls; the coffee list includes Tomyum Coffee and Popular Coffee. Those hours do not guarantee that every item is available, so check current availability if your visit depends on one dish or drink.

Afternoon: your choice. A massage, a swim, a scooter run up to the viewpoints, or nothing at all.

Evening: the market. Catch the sunset from Nopparat Thara, then continue to the nearby Landmark as the stalls light up. Check a current map for the route. Arrive around 6:30–7 pm, do your lap, and graze your way through dinner.

We genuinely think this is one of the best-value days in Ao Nang: no tours, no tickets, almost no transport, and you eat extremely well twice.

Practical information

• Getting there: Ao Nang Landmark is on the main road in Khlong Haeng, near Nopparat Thara Beach. Check a current map or local transport service for routing from your starting point.
• Hours: stalls set up from late afternoon (roughly 4–5 pm) and run to around 10–11 pm nightly; liveliest from 6 pm.
• Parking: parking for the cafe or complex is not documented in the verified cafe facts; confirm current options with Ao Nang Landmark before driving.
• Money: cash for almost all stalls. Small notes (20s, 50s, 100s) make life easier.
• Weather: most stalls have awnings, but in the rainy season (May–October) an evening downpour can pause things for half an hour. Showers usually pass; locals just wait them out under cover.
• When to come: peak season (November–February) evenings are the fullest and most fun; low season is quieter but the core food stalls still run nightly.

Quick answers

Is the Ao Nang night market open every day? Yes — it runs nightly, all week, year-round. Low season (May–October) is quieter and can end a little earlier, but the core food stalls still trade.

How much money do you need for the night market? Most dishes cost 50–150 baht, and two people eat very well for 300–500 baht total. Bring cash in small notes; almost no stalls take cards.

Where is Ao Nang Landmark? It is on the main road in Khlong Haeng, near Nopparat Thara Beach. Check a current map or local transport service for routing from your starting point.

Is there parking at the night market? Parking for the cafe or complex is not documented in the verified cafe facts. Confirm current parking options with Ao Nang Landmark before driving.

Where can you eat at the Landmark before the stalls open? Thongyib Thongyod is inside the complex and open 8:00–18:00 daily. The current cafe menu lists coffee, smoothie bowls and mango sticky rice; check current item availability if your visit depends on one dish.

If you find yourself at the Landmark before the market wakes up, you can find us inside Ao Nang Landmark. The cafe opens at 8 in the morning; browse the current cafe menu and check current item availability before visiting.