Every advertised rental in Mukdahan we could enumerate, August 2026
| Building | District | Asking | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ploy Palace Hotel | Mueang Mukdahan (Song Nang Sathit) | Monthly: contact; ฿900–1,800/day | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Ban Phak Putai | Mueang Mukdahan (Phothirat/Chayangkun) | ฿2,300–2,700/mo | 21 Jul 2026 |
| The One Place Mukdahan | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿4,500/mo | 24 Nov 2025 |
| Phat Phong Phan Apartment | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿1,500–3,000/mo; ฿300–500/day | 26 Aug 2025 |
| BANKUNCHOR | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿4,000/mo | 23 Jun 2024 |
| Apartment Ban Kun Chor | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿3,000–4,500/mo | 21 Jun 2024 |
| Muk Modern House | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿2,800–3,000/mo; ฿300/day | 20 Jul 2023 |
| Wassana House Hotel | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿3,500/mo; ฿450/day | 15 Sep 2022 |
| Aumsub Apartment | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿2,800/mo | 18 Aug 2021 |
| Grandma Kim's dorm | Nikhom Kham Soi | ฿2,500–5,500/mo | 22 Jun 2021 |
| T.K.D House | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿2,000–3,000/mo; ฿250–300/day | 27 Apr 2021 |
| 1tawan (portal-verified listing) | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿2,500–3,000/mo | 9 Nov 2020 |
| Thungngoen | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿3,200/mo | 8 Feb 2020 |
| Ban Yai Nan | Khamcha-i | ฿2,600–4,000/mo; ฿350–500/day | 14 Nov 2019 |
| Thungngoen Apartment | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿3,200/mo | 11 Oct 2019 |
| New House | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿3,000/mo | 1 Mar 2018 |
| Banpholtirach | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿2,500–3,000/mo | 14 Aug 2016 |
| Barn Home Boon | Mueang Mukdahan | ฿3,000–3,500/mo | 17 Jan 2016 |
Source: a Thai apartment portal, checked 18 August 2026. The portal stated 19 buildings province-wide and its district facets summed to exactly 19 (Mueang Mukdahan 17, Nikhom Kham Soi 1, Khamcha-i 1) — but its first page rendered 18. We publish the 18 we could see rather than round to the stated total. Four of the province's seven districts — Don Tan, Wan Yai, Dong Luang and Nong Sung — advertised nothing at all.
How to read that table
Three things. First, the count. The portal stated 19 buildings for the province and its district facets summed to exactly 19 — Mueang Mukdahan 17, Nikhom Kham Soi 1, Khamcha-i 1 — but its first page rendered 18 cards. One short of its own total. Either a nineteenth listing sits on a second page or one is failing to render; we have published the 18 we could see rather than quietly rounding, and we treat 19 as the portal's figure. Second, the dates. Only two of these were touched in 2026 and four in 2025 or later; fourteen were last updated in 2024 or earlier, six of those in 2019 or earlier, and the oldest in January 2016. A ten-year-old asking price is not a price, it is a historical artefact, so treat the bottom half of this table as a phone-number list rather than a rate card. Third, the daily rates. Six of the eighteen quote one, and one of them — the Ploy Palace Hotel, the freshest listing on the board — quotes only a daily rate and asks you to contact them about a month. That is a third of the advertised market functioning as short-stay accommodation, the highest share we have recorded in this launch rotation, and it is what a working international border crossing does to a small town's room supply.
The whole sale market, in one paragraph
Unusually, the for-sale side of this province can be described in full rather than sampled. A property portal stated 11 listings, rendered exactly 11, closed the set with 'we've shown you all the matches' and repeated 11 in its own FAQ — three counts in agreement, which is more internal consistency than most provinces in this rotation managed. Every one of the eleven had been posted between 18 July and 17 August 2026, so unlike the rental data this is genuinely current. The composition: eight plots of land, three detached houses, and no condominium, townhouse or shophouse at all. The three houses were ฿1,200,000 for a two-bedroom of 186 square metres on 160 sq wa at Dong Luang, and two at ฿2,500,000 each at Ban Pao in Nong Sung, both advertised on a 360-degree mountain outlook. The land ran from ฿68 a square metre for a 60-rai parcel at Kham Pa Lai to ฿3,750 a square metre for a 100 sq wa plot inside Mukdahan town — a spread of more than fifty to one inside one province, because one small inventory contains both town plots and hill farms. By district: six in Mueang Mukdahan, three in Nong Sung, one in Wan Yai, one in Dong Luang, and nothing in Don Tan, Nikhom Kham Soi or Khamcha-i.
The airport premium you may be paying without knowing it
Three of the eleven for-sale listings are in Kham Pa Lai subdistrict, and they include the two extremes of the whole provincial inventory: the largest parcel, 60 rai at 96,140 square metres for ฿6,500,000, which is ฿68 a square metre and the cheapest land advertised anywhere in the province; and the most expensive listing of any kind, 42 rai on Chayangkun Road at ฿37,000,000, or ฿549 a square metre. A fourth, ฿24,000,000 for 5 rai 1 ngan 86 sq wa, is on the same Chayangkun Road in the neighbouring Kham A Huan, and its own listing title records the asking price being cut from ฿25.5 million to ฿23.9 million. Kham Pa Lai is the subdistrict named in the Department of Airports' plan as the site of the proposed Mukdahan airport — a ฿5 billion, roughly 2,000-rai project about 20 kilometres from the town, which a March 2023 report expected to begin construction in 2025 and open in 2027, which national media reported in spring 2025 that the Ministry of Transport had scrapped for lack of economic justification, and which the provincial governor publicly insisted days later was still going ahead. It is now August 2026 and nothing has been built. We are not telling you the airport will never happen. We are telling you that the freshest, largest and dearest land in this province sits around a runway two arms of the Thai state disagree about, and that you should check whose version you are paying for before you sign.
The three budget lines that matter more than rent
First, a vehicle, and here it is not optional in the way it is elsewhere. Mukdahan has no airport and no railway station anywhere in its seven districts. Nothing outside the town core is reachable without one, the province covers over four thousand square kilometres, and the two roads that matter — Highway 212 along the Mekong and Highway 12 west toward Tak — are long. Budget a motorbike as the floor and a car if you have a family. Second, the travel line. Your nearest passenger railway station is Ubon Ratchathani, about 167 kilometres away by bus; your nearest well-served airports are at Ubon Ratchathani and Nakhon Phanom; and the provincial governor's own suggested interim option is Savannakhet Airport, across the bridge in Laos, which means a border crossing every time you fly. Whichever you choose, every trip out of this province starts with two to three hours in a vehicle, and that has a real annual cost in money and in time. Third, schooling. We found no international-curriculum school in Mukdahan. We did not re-read the national list of international schools this run, so we record that as UNVERIFIED rather than as a proven absence — but if an international curriculum is a requirement, budget on the assumption that the nearest option is in another province, and check before you commit.
Mukdahan cost-of-living FAQ
What does a room actually cost in Mukdahan?
Between ฿1,500 and ฿5,500 a month on the eighteen advertised buildings we could enumerate, clustering ฿2,500 to ฿3,500. The bottom of the range is Phat Phong Phan Apartment at ฿1,500–3,000, the top is Grandma Kim's dorm in Nikhom Kham Soi at ฿2,500–5,500, and the most common shape is a single-figure quote around ฿3,000 to ฿3,500. Six of the eighteen also advertise a nightly rate — ฿250–300 at T.K.D House, ฿300 at Muk Modern House, ฿300–500 at Phat Phong Phan, ฿350–500 at Ban Yai Nan in Khamcha-i, ฿450 at Wassana House Hotel and ฿900–1,800 at the Ploy Palace Hotel, which advertises no monthly rate at all — so if you want to arrive without a lease, this province has more short-stay options than most of its neighbours. Two important caveats. Only two of the eighteen were updated in 2026, and fourteen were last touched in 2024 or earlier, so half of these numbers are historical. And these are rooms, not family homes: a three-bedroom house in a provincial Isaan town typically lets well above the top of this band, and houses essentially never appear on rental portals, so you will find one through a local agent, a neighbour or a sign in a window.
Is Mukdahan cheaper than Nakhon Phanom or Ubon Ratchathani?
On advertised rents it is broadly comparable to Nakhon Phanom and cheaper than a full-sized city like Ubon, but the more useful comparison is depth rather than price. Nakhon Phanom, twice Mukdahan's population, advertised seven rental buildings province-wide when we checked it; Mukdahan advertised nineteen. That makes Mukdahan roughly three times as deep a market per head, which for someone trying to arrange housing is worth more than a few hundred baht of headline rent. Where Mukdahan loses on cost is transport, and it loses badly. Nakhon Phanom has an airport with two scheduled carriers to Bangkok Don Mueang; Ubon Ratchathani has an airport and a passenger railway terminus. Mukdahan has neither and no realistic prospect of either — the promised airport was reported cancelled by the Ministry of Transport in spring 2025 and publicly defended by the governor days later, and nothing has been built since. Every flight you take from Mukdahan starts with a two-to-three-hour drive or a border crossing. If you fly four times a year, that difference is larger than the rent gap. If you never fly, Mukdahan wins.
How much do I need per month to live here comfortably?
We are not going to hand you a single number, because the honest inputs do not support one — but here is what we can anchor. Advertised rents cluster ฿2,500 to ฿3,500 for a room, and the three houses advertised for sale province-wide ranged ฿1,200,000 to ฿2,500,000, which tells you something about the ownership cost of a family home here. Beyond that, the province's own economic indicators set expectations: gross provincial product was ฿26 billion in 2019 across 350,510 people, and the 2022 Human Achievement Index placed Mukdahan 59th of 77 overall with income ranked 74th — near the bottom of Thailand. That is a low-wage local economy, which means local goods and services are cheap and anything imported is not. The lines that will actually determine your number are the ones above: a vehicle you cannot do without, a travel budget for a province with no airport, and international schooling if you need it. What we can say without hedging is that housing will be the smallest surprise in your budget here, and transport the largest.
Why don't you publish a rainfall or utilities figure?
Because we could not source them to a standard we are willing to print as fact. On rainfall specifically: we could not obtain a Thai Meteorological Department normals table or a WMO station record for Mukdahan on any page we could read. What we found instead were four climate-data sites giving four different annual totals for the same place — approximately 1,534, 1,547, 1,572 and 1,626 millimetres — all of them modelled or reanalysis products rather than station records. A spread of about 92 millimetres between four sources purporting to describe one town is a fair measure of how much weight to put on any one of them, so we publish the spread and the caveat rather than a headline number. What the sources do agree on, and what matters for a budget, is the shape: August is the wettest month at around 306 millimetres over roughly 23 rainy days, January the driest at around 5 millimetres over about one, with roughly 98 rainy days a year and an average annual temperature around 25.5°C in a Köppen Aw tropical savanna climate. Budget for a wet middle of the year and air conditioning through the hot season, and treat any precise annual figure you see quoted for this province — including in the four sources above — with scepticism.
Sources & References
- Apartments for rent in Mukdahan — RentHub
- Property for sale in Mukdahan — DDproperty
- Mukdahan province — Wikipedia
- Mukdahan Governor confirms airport project will proceed following Cabinet directive — Thailand Construction News
- Thailand to build seven new airports (Mukdahan: ฿5bn, Kham Pa Lai, 2,000 rai) — Thailand Construction News
- Mukdahan climate — Climate-Data.org
- Tourism Authority of Thailand
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
Primary and official sources are cited above. Government rules, fees and procedures in Thailand change over time and vary by office; always confirm current requirements with the relevant authority before relying on them. BAANLYY never takes paid placement in editorial content.
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