Chiang Mai condo rent by area: what a month costs.
// Short answer
The middle building in my Chiang Mai data asks ฿316 per m² a month to rent. About ฿14,200 for a 45 m² one-bedroom, area by area below, from 69 buildings whose rents were cross-checked across rental platforms.
Asking rents from the August and September 2026 pulls behind the city guides, published buildings only. Long-term leases; asking, not signed.
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How much does it cost to rent a condo in Chiang Mai long-term?
The middle building in my Chiang Mai data asks ฿316 per m² a month. That is about ฿9,500 for a 30 m² studio and ฿14,200 for 45 m². Half the buildings ask between ฿286 and ฿354 per m².
These figures cover 69 buildings from the Chiang Mai Condo Buyer's Guide, each with at least three distinct listings. Each building's rate comes from rental listings in that building, cross-checked across rental platforms. A building where the platforms disagreed badly was dropped rather than averaged, and no building rests on a single source.
| Size | Middle building | Middle half of buildings |
|---|---|---|
| 30 m² | ฿9,500 | ฿8,600 to ฿10,600 |
| 45 m² | ฿14,200 | ฿12,900 to ฿15,900 |
Three things to know before you use them.
- They are asking rents. What owners advertise, not what a tenant signed. Treat them as the opening number in a negotiation.
- The size columns multiply one rate by the floor area. Rounded to the nearest ฿100, and kept to sizes close to the typical unit the rates were measured on. Do not scale the rate up to a large unit: my own audit of this data found that doing so overstates what a bigger unit asks. For anything over about 50 m², check live listings in that building.
- They are long-term rents. Short stays are priced differently and are not in this data.
Which Chiang Mai areas cost the most to rent?
Chang Phueak / Santitham asks the most, a median ฿343 per m² a month across 16 buildings. Nong Pa Khrang asks the least of the well-covered areas, ฿280 per m² across 7.
Areas with more than 3 published buildings, highest first. The monthly columns use the area's median rate.
| Area | Buildings | Per m² a month | 30 m² | 45 m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chang Phueak / Santitham | 16 | ฿343 | ฿10,300 | ฿15,400 |
| Suthep / Nimman | 17 | ฿333 | ฿10,000 | ฿15,000 |
| Chang Khlan / Night Bazaar | 5 | ฿316 | ฿9,500 | ฿14,200 |
| Fa Ham | 9 | ฿308 | ฿9,200 | ฿13,800 |
| Nong Pa Khrang | 7 | ฿280 | ฿8,400 | ฿12,600 |
Thinly covered areas, shown so you know they exist but not ranked, because a median of one to three buildings describes those buildings and not the area: Pa Daet (3, ฿328 per m²); Mae Hia / Hang Dong (3, ฿286 per m²); Wat Ket / East Ping (2, ฿369 per m²); San Sai (2, ฿214 per m²); Chai Sathan / Saraphi (1, ฿205 per m²); Nong Hoi (1, ฿229 per m²); Si Phum / Old City (1, ฿482 per m²); Pa Tan (1, ฿186 per m²); San Phak Wan / Hang Dong (1, ฿224 per m²).
Does the building matter more than the area?
Often, yes. Inside Fa Ham alone, published buildings ask from ฿255 to ฿596 per m² a month. Two units of the same size in the same area can differ by thousands of baht a month.
Across the whole city the published buildings run from ฿134 to ฿596 per m². An area median tells you where to start looking. The building tells you what you will pay.
When you compare quotes, compare them per m², not per month. A cheaper monthly rent on a smaller unit can be the dearer rent. Divide the quote by the floor area and set it against the table above.
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What should a Chiang Mai rent quote include?
Ask what the monthly figure covers. The building's common-area fee is billed to the owner, so a quote may or may not fold it in. Ask how electricity and water are billed, and what the deposit and minimum term are, before you compare two quotes.
- The common-area fee. Charged to the owner per m² each month: the Chiang Mai service charge page. Ask whether the rent includes it.
- Utilities. Ask whether electricity and water are billed at the building's rate or passed through from the meter, and get it in the lease.
- Deposit and term. Ask for both in writing before you compare quotes, because a lower rent on a longer lock-in is a different offer.
Renting now, thinking of buying later?
Renting first is the cheapest way to learn which building you would actually live in. If you later buy, the rent you are paying is the number your purchase has to beat each month.
What a unit costs to buy, area by area: Chiang Mai condo prices by area. What it costs to own once bought: the Chiang Mai cost page.
Buying to let rather than to live in? The rent side of that decision, unit by unit, is what the Custom Report models.
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