Wat Saket and the Golden Mount

The Golden Mount is exactly what it sounds like: a man-made hill in the middle of a flat city, with a gold chedi on top and a staircase spiralling up around the outside of it. Wat Saket itself sits at the foot. The point of going is the climb and what you can see from the top, which is the old town without the towers that block it everywhere else.

What we could not tell you, and why. Our standard is that a price goes on the page when a primary source states it. The temple’s website was down all day on 18 September 2026, returning a server error over every variant of the address, and the bare domain does not resolve at all. The Tourism Authority of Thailand pages refuse automated requests, and the archived copy of the temple site could not be fetched either. The figures circulating in secondary sources run from 20 to 100 baht, with at least one report of a recent increase. That spread is the reason this page carries no number rather than a number with a caveat attached.

Hours are in the same position. Secondary sources give 07:00, 07:30, 08:00 and 09:00 as opening times, and 17:30, 19:00 or 19:30 as closing. No two agree closely enough to be useful, and OpenStreetMap records none at all. Go in the morning or the late afternoon and you are inside the range of all of them.

The climb. A sign at the foot of the stairs, photographed and published on Wikimedia Commons, puts it at 344 steps. It is a gentle spiral rather than a ladder, with bells and shade on the way up, and it is genuinely hard work in April heat.

What would change this page. A working official site, or a photograph of the ticket board with a date on it. If you go and can send us either, we will publish the figure and say where it came from.