Cost of living
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Try it free →Read this first: Uttaradit sees essentially no foreign visitors, so community-contributed price data for it is close to non-existent. Rather than publish false-precision figures, the tables below give indicative ranges typical of an inexpensive upper-northern agricultural province, clearly labelled as guide estimates. Confirm current asking prices — especially rent — directly for the specific town and property you choose.
Food & dining (indicative)
| Item | Indicative price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Meal, inexpensive local restaurant / market stall | ฿40–65 | Rural provincial pricing with no visitor premium |
| Meal for two, mid-range restaurant | ฿350–650 | Town-centre restaurants sit at the top of this range |
| Cappuccino / café coffee | ฿45–70 | A modest café scene exists in the town and around the Rajabhat university |
| Local durian & langsat in season | Varies widely | Laplae's Longlaplae and Linlaplae durians command a premium even locally; langsat is cheap in September |
Housing & utilities (indicative)
Housing barely moves across Uttaradit — the province has no verified condominium market and no agency-led rental sector, so the real variable is whether you want a room or apartment (the town or Sila At) or a house (everywhere). See the rental market guide for lease terms.
| Item | Indicative range | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Room or small apartment, Uttaradit town or Sila At | ฿3,000–8,000/mo | Owner-run blocks near the hospital and Rajabhat university; shophouse rooms in the centre |
| Townhouse or 1–2 bed unit, town centre | ฿5,000–10,000/mo | The most serviced part of the province, so the top of the formal market |
| 2–3 bed detached house, Laplae / Tron / Phichai / uplands | ฿2,500–9,000/mo | Let directly by local owners; garden and parking usually included, rarely advertised online |
| Basic utilities (electricity, water, common areas) | ฿1,000–2,500/mo | Electricity dominates; higher with heavy air-con use in the hot season |
Transport, connectivity & everyday (indicative)
| Item | Indicative price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Petrol (1 litre) | ฿35–45 | A motorbike or car is a fixed line in almost every Uttaradit budget |
| Mobile plan (calls + data) | ฿300–500/mo | AIS, TrueMove H and dtac all cover the province; upland coverage is thinner |
| Home broadband (fibre, unlimited) | ฿450–800/mo | AIS Fibre, True and 3BB serve the town; check coverage before signing a district lease |
| Songthaew / short local trip | ฿10–40 | No BTS, MRT or city bus — songthaews and motorbike taxis fill in |
Uttaradit has no BTS, MRT or city bus network — a motorbike or car is the practical default almost everywhere, consistent with the getting-around guide. The train, however, is genuinely cheap and useful: the province sits on the Northern Line with two stations in the provincial town.
Why we present ranges, not single figures
Uttaradit attracts essentially no tourists or digital nomads, and those are the populations that fund granular cost-of-living coverage elsewhere in Thailand. What public data exists is official statistics — provincial output, workforce, forest area, agriculture — rather than shopping-basket prices. Rather than invent a precise number to complete the picture, this guide uses honest indicative ranges and flags them clearly. As verified, Uttaradit-specific data becomes available, these tables will be updated to cite it directly.
The one hard number: the legal wage floor
Almost everything above is an indicative range. This is not. The Wage Committee's Announcement No. 14, in force since 1 July 2025, sets seventeen area rates running from ฿337 to ฿400 a day, and Uttaradit sits at ฿347 — the third-lowest of the seventeen, shared with eleven other provinces. It is the single verifiable, dated, province-specific cost figure on this page, and it anchors what local wages, and therefore local prices, are built on.
| Province | Minimum wage (1 Jul 2025) | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Uttaradit | ฿347/day | Third-lowest of the seventeen rates, shared with eleven other provinces including Sukhothai |
| Sukhothai (neighbour, southwest) | ฿347/day | Level with Uttaradit — no step at that border at all |
| Phrae (neighbour, west) | ฿345/day | Two baht below Uttaradit, not above it |
| Nan (neighbour, northeast) | ฿345/day | Also below — the legal floor drops as you go further into the hills |
| Phitsanulok (neighbour, south) | ฿352/day | The only neighbour above, and only by ฿5 — about 1.4% |
Read the table rather than the headline. The intuition that Uttaradit is cheap because it is the poorest thing around does not survive contact with the law: two of its four Thai neighbours sit below it, and a third is exactly level. Uttaradit is on a wide, flat plateau of low-wage provinces, not at the bottom of a cliff — which is why the honest comparison on this page is with Phitsanulok, ฿5 higher and structurally different, rather than with the hill provinces next door.
Two qualifications matter here more than they would elsewhere. First, the ฿347 rate describes employment covered by the ordinary minimum-wage rules; agricultural work of the kinds excluded from them — plantation and orchard work, livestock, forestry, salt farming and fishery other than sea fishery — sits outside that floor. This guide explains Uttaradit's cheapness by rice, durian, langsat and forestry, and those are precisely the activities the number does not govern, so ฿347 describes the covered part of this labour market, not all of it. Second, the same announcement carries a ฿400 floor for licensed hotels and for entertainment venues regardless of province — a carve-out that reshapes wages in Phuket or Samui and barely registers in a province with no tourism industry. Confirm any specific case with the Ministry of Labour or a Thai employment lawyer; this is general information, not legal advice.
Frequently asked
Is there reliable cost-of-living data for Uttaradit?Barely. Uttaradit sees essentially no foreign visitors, so the community-contributed price trackers that cover Phuket or Chiang Mai have almost nothing on it. This guide therefore presents indicative ranges typical of an inexpensive upper-northern agricultural province and says so plainly. We would rather flag the uncertainty than publish a false-precision number and let someone budget a relocation against it.
How much does it cost to live in Uttaradit per month?For a single long-stayer, a realistic all-in budget sits broadly in the ฿16,000–30,000/month range, driven mostly by housing and whether you run a car — a room in Sila At at the low end, a townhouse in the town centre with a vehicle at the higher end. That is below almost every province BAANLYY covers and below Phitsanulok an hour and a half south.
Why is Uttaradit inexpensive?It is an agricultural province — rice, durian, langsat and forestry — with essentially no tourism industry and no expat-premium pricing. There is no airport, no mass transit and no condominium market to pull prices up. In a local economy at that scale, everyday food, rooms and services price accordingly. The legal wage floor puts a number on it: ฿347 a day under Announcement No. 14 of 1 July 2025, the third-lowest of the country's seventeen area rates. But note what that number does and does not cover — forestry and plantation work sit outside the ordinary minimum-wage rules altogether, so in the very industries this answer names, ฿347 is not the operative figure.
What is the minimum wage in Uttaradit?฿347 per day, set by the Wage Committee's Announcement No. 14 and in force since 1 July 2025. That is the third-lowest of the seventeen area rates nationally, which run from ฿337 in the three southern border provinces to ฿400 in Bangkok, Chonburi, Rayong, Chachoengsao, Phuket and Koh Samui. Eleven other provinces share the ฿347 rate, Sukhothai among them. Uttaradit is not, however, the cheapest corner of its own region on this measure: Phrae and Nan, both direct neighbours, sit at ฿345. Phitsanulok, an hour and a half south, is ฿352.
What's the biggest cost driver in Uttaradit?Transport, more than housing. Rents barely move across the province, but with no mass transit and real distances between the town, Laplae, the southern districts and the northeastern uplands, almost everyone needs a motorbike or car. Anyone needing regular specialist healthcare should also budget the run to Phitsanulok, about an hour and a half south.
How does Uttaradit compare to Phitsanulok for cost of living?Directionally, Uttaradit is cheaper across housing, food and daily costs. Phitsanulok is a working regional hub with a large university, an airport and tertiary hospitals, and prices reflect that; Uttaradit is a rural province with a regional hospital and a Rajabhat university but none of the rest. We present the comparison as directional rather than a precise percentage, since verified side-by-side Uttaradit data does not exist.
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Sources & References
- Uttaradit province — Wikipedia
- Wage Committee Announcement No. 14 (in force 1 July 2025) — full text, Ministry of Labour
- Ministry of Labour — minimum wage rates
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
- Tourism Authority of 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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Last updated 4 September 2026 · Last reviewed 4 September 2026