An hour and a quarter by minivan
Khanom is about ninety kilometres east of Surat Thani, on the mainland coast opposite Koh Samui. Minivans run from Talad Kaset 2 bus station in Surat Thani roughly every forty-five minutes between seven in the morning and six in the evening, take a little over an hour and cost around a hundred baht.
Khanom has no railway station of its own. Surat Thani is the nearest at ninety kilometres, and Nakhon Si Thammarat is the other option to the south. So the pattern for most people is train to Surat Thani, then van.
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Route at a glance
Surat Thani to Khanom
- Distance: about 90 km east
- Minivan: a little over an hour, around 100 baht
- Departures: roughly every 45 minutes, 07.00 to 18.00
- Train: none to Khanom — Surat Thani is the nearest station
Good to know
Good to know
- Vans leave from Talad Kaset 2, not the railway station — take a tuk-tuk across.
- You are dropped in Khanom town, not at the beach; motorbike taxis cover the last stretch.
- Sichon is thirty kilometres further south and served by the same road.
- Donsak pier, for the Koh Samui ferries, is between the two.