Ao Nang Night Market at Ao Nang Landmark: A Local's Guide

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. It sits five minutes’ walk from Nopparat Thara Beach and ten to fifteen minutes by songthaew from the central Ao Nang strip.

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
• Five minutes’ walk from Nopparat Thara Beach; the complex has its own parking for cars and scooters
• Do a full lap before buying anything, and follow the queues of Thai customers

We have a slightly unfair advantage when it comes to writing about it: our cafe, Thongyib Thongyod Brunch & Cafe, sits inside Ao Nang Landmark, the complex that hosts the market, so we watch the whole cycle every single day. Every evening around sunset, vendors wheel in their carts, awnings unfold, charcoal grills start smoking, and within an hour the quiet daytime plaza becomes the biggest street food gathering on this side of Krabi.

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, at the Nopparat Thara end of Ao Nang. It sits about five minutes’ walk from Nopparat Thara Beach and roughly ten to fifteen minutes by songthaew or scooter from the central Ao Nang strip.

By day it is a low-key place: a handful of shops, massage, plenty of parking — and us. Thongyib Thongyod is one of the complex’s daytime residents, serving brunch, coffee and Thai desserts from 8:00 to 18:00 in the same courtyard the stalls take over after dark. It is the kind of spot locals use for errands and a coffee rather than somewhere tourists linger — until the evening, when the open areas fill with food stalls and the night market takes over.

If you are staying near Nopparat Thara Beach or along the Khlong Haeng road, the Landmark is your closest evening food option by a wide margin. If you are staying on the main strip, it is an easy, cheap songthaew ride — and a good excuse to see a different corner of 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? Start the day at our table — we open at 8:00, five minutes from Nopparat Thara Beach. 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 of the things we point our own guests toward:

• 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; we make thongyib and thongyod fresh at the cafe during the day, a few steps from where the dessert stalls set up at night.

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 is entirely reasonable on a week-long stay: 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

Because the Landmark sits between Nopparat Thara Beach and the Ao Nang strip, it anchors a very easy full day — this is more or less how we tell friends to structure a first visit to our end of town:

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.

Late morning: brunch and coffee. Come off the beach and into the Landmark — Thongyib Thongyod is inside the complex, open daily from 8:00 to 18:00, in the same courtyard the market occupies at night. Our brunch is built on artisan sourdough, the smoothie bowls handle the tropical-heat appetite, and if you want something you will not find elsewhere, try the Tom Yum coffee or the popcorn-caramel “Popular Coffee” from our coffee list. Daytime is the quiet, air-flow-and-coffee version of the Landmark; it is a good place to sit out the midday heat.

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 (the west-facing beach makes it easy), then walk the five minutes back to the Landmark as the stalls light up. 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, about 5 minutes’ walk from Nopparat Thara Beach. From central Ao Nang, flag a white songthaew heading toward Nopparat Thara, or it is a short scooter or taxi ride.
• Hours: stalls set up from late afternoon (roughly 4–5 pm) and run to around 10–11 pm nightly; liveliest from 6 pm.
• Parking: the complex has its own parking for cars and scooters, which is a real advantage over street markets — arriving by scooter here is painless even at peak dinner time.
• 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.

How do you get to Ao Nang Landmark from the main strip? Flag a white songthaew heading toward Nopparat Thara, or take a short scooter or taxi ride — about ten to fifteen minutes. From Nopparat Thara Beach it is a five-minute walk.

Is there parking at the night market? Yes — the complex has its own parking for cars and scooters, so arriving by scooter is painless even at peak dinner time.

Where can you eat at the Landmark before the stalls open? At our cafe — Thongyib Thongyod is open 8:00–18:00 daily inside the complex, so a late-afternoon coffee, a smoothie bowl or a plate of mango sticky rice bridges the gap neatly until the market lights up.

If you find yourself at the Landmark before the market wakes up, come and say hello — we are inside the complex all day, and we are happy to point you toward our favourite stalls for that evening. You can find us in the courtyard, coffee ready, from 8 in the morning.