Learn Muay Thai in Chiang Mai

What you can realistically reach: Training daily at a Thai camp for a week or two sharpens real technique, conditioning and pad work fast — you will leave genuinely fitter and more skilled. Fighting-level competence is months of daily training.

Schools in Chiang Mai

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Santai Muay Thai
  Multi-week residential Muay Thai camp with on-site accommodation (1-week to 3-month programs)
  Santai is a Muay Thai camp in San Kamphaeng outside Chiang Mai, opened in 2002 by former Pinsinchai-gym trainers, offering twice-daily training in week-, month-, and multi-month residential packages with on-site accommodation.
  https://muay-thai-santai.com/
• Lanna Muay Thai
  Open-ended self-paced training (daily, weekly, and monthly fight-focused programs)
  Lanna Muay Thai (formerly Kiatbusaba) is a long-running Chiang Mai gym near Chiang Mai University, founded by Andy Thompson, offering self-paced daily, weekly, and monthly training with a fight-oriented approach and a women's-only Saturday class.
  https://www.lanna-muaythai.com/
• Hongthong Muay Thai Gym
  Multi-day to multi-week training programs (twice-daily group classes plus private coaching)
  Hongthong Muay Thai is a Chiang Mai gym founded by twin Lumpinee-Stadium veterans Hongthongnoi and Hongthonglek, offering twice-daily group classes and private coaching across multi-day and multi-week programs with on-site recovery amenities.
  https://www.facebook.com/muaythaigymhongthong/

The room

• Group — Group sessions with trainers rotating one-on-one on the pads.
• A normal day — Two sessions daily, early morning and late afternoon — running, bag work, pad rounds, clinch and sparring; rest in the heat of the day.
• Who comes — All levels, from fitness travellers to aspiring fighters, mostly 18–45.

Want the rest — a normal day, first hour to last? Ask the school; a serious one answers in two minutes.

The credential

Certified Kru (instructor) rank via the Kru Muay Thai Association, or a sanctioned WMC/WBC Muaythai professional fight record · Certifying body: Kru Muay Thai Association (KMA), accredited by Thailand's Ministry of Culture & Education; WMC / WBC Muaythai for professional ranking

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Muay Thai

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.