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Chiang Mai to Luang Phabang

1 operator run this water, from 57 min.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Lao Airlines CNX → LPQ 358 km non-stop AT7 in the air 2 h 27 est. rate not held 378 km/h average

Other ways to reach Luang Phabang

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Luang Phabang without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Vientiane – Luang Phabang 46 min FlyNordic
Hanoi (Soc Son) – Luang Phabang 1 h 01 Lao Airlines
Pakse – Luang Phabang 1 h 19 Lao Airlines
Bangkok – Luang Phabang 1 h 23 Air France

And other ways to reach Chiang Mai

Yangon – Chiang Mai 57 min Air Bagan
Udon Thani – Chiang Mai 1 h 02 Nok Air
Bangkok – Chiang Mai 1 h 13 Air Berlin, Nok Air
Kunming – Chiang Mai 1 h 31 China Eastern Airlines
Krabi – Chiang Mai 1 h 59 Thai AirAsia
Phuket – Chiang Mai 1 h 59 Thai AirAsia
Hat Yai – Chiang Mai 2 h 09 Thai AirAsia
Chongqing – Chiang Mai 2 h 18 Shandong Airlines
Guangzhou (Huadu) – Chiang Mai 2 h 28 China Southern Airlines

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Chiang Mai–Luang Phabang crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.