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Will you make your connection in Bangkok?

Bangkok has two airports about 50 km apart. Low-cost airlines fly from Don Mueang, full-service airlines from Suvarnabhumi — so travellers constantly connect between them on separate tickets. Answers online range from 90 minutes to 6 hours. This tool shows where that spread comes from.

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I land at at and fly out of DMK at .

I am travelling on , I fly , and I am .

What decides it

You should make it, but with no slack

The immigration queue. It swings with the arrival wave, and you cannot speed it up.

Time you have

4 hr

Time you need

3 hr 25 min

131–435 min

Show the step-by-step breakdown
  • Off the aircraft
    10–30 min

    No figure is published for these two airports specifically — this is an industry range: 10–20 minutes for a narrow-body, 30+ for a wide-body.

  • Immigration
    13–180 min

    Sources disagree by an order of magnitude here. Immigration says queues clear within 30 minutes; two weeks earlier, travellers were reporting hours-long waits. This is the least predictable part of the whole chain.

  • Baggage
    18–45 min

    The airport’s own service target is 18–20 minutes for the first bag and 25–30 for the last, but the audit that reports it is old. In practice, especially on a late arrival, it can run to 45 minutes — that is the upper end of the range above.

  • Airport to airport
    45–120 min
  • Check-in cut-off
    45–60 min

    Low-cost carriers close check-in 45 minutes before domestic and 60 before international departures. Nok Air publishes this and names Don Mueang directly; Thai Lion Air publishes it in its terms. Baggage drop is not always a separate, earlier deadline — it usually closes at the same time as the check-in desk, so confirm with your airline if you are checking a bag.

Getting between the airports

  • Free shuttle bus60–150 min

    Free

    Not available to you. Officially limited to passengers transferring between the two airports on a connecting booking. The general public is not eligible. Runs 05:00–24:00.

  • Official airport van60–150 min

    60 ฿

    Off-peak it leaves once an hour, and the wait at the stop is not counted in the minutes above.

  • Metered taxi45–120 min

    440–820 ฿

    Expressway tolls are paid by the passenger, in cash at the booths along the way. They are not part of the meter and the airport does not publish the amounts.

  • Private transferOur pick45–120 min

    Price depends on the operator

    This will not save the connection: what decides it is not the road, and no car changes that. But of the options that take the same time, only a booked car has its price agreed up front and a driver who follows your flight.

    A paid service, booked in advance with an outside operator.

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With this little margin, the thing that breaks connections is not the road — it is waiting at the rank and arguing about the meter. A car booked in advance has its price agreed up front and a driver who watches your flight.

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These are estimates from public sources, not official guarantees. The final word belongs to your airline and the airport.

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