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Halfmoon Festival
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About this event
Halfmoon Festival is a two-day electronic music event on Koh Phangan. Day one is a daytime party at Harmony Beach Club, and the main night follows in the Halfmoon Magical Forest in Ban Tai, where three stages, Prime Stage, G Floor and The Cave, run until sunrise. It was founded in 2002 by the DJs Jao Pattanasiri and Oren Mizrachi as a less commercial alternative to the big beach parties.
The October 2025 listing on Megatix shows the usual order: day party at the beach club on 14 October from 14:00 and the main festival on 15 October. The dates in this series run through September 2026, usually about two weeks apart, which matches the Bangkok Post's description of a party every two weeks in 2024. The founders wanted to move the party from the beach into the rainforest with a more environmental mindset. Tickets are sold through Megatix, so check the listing for each date, since the layout of an event can differ from the standard one.
Past dates (15)
18 September 2026, 5 September 2026, 21 August 2026, 5 August 2026, 9 May 2026, 25 April 2026, 25 March 2026, 10 March 2026, 23 February 2026, 9 February 2026, 25 January 2026, 10 January 2026, 27 December 2025, 13 December 2025, 14 October 2025
At a glance
When
18 - 19 September 2026, 14:00
Where
Harmony Beach Club / Halfmoon Magic Forest, Ban Tai
Island
Koh Phangan
Kind
Parties, Live music, Festivals and culture
Organizer
Halfmoon Festival
Listed on thailandstarterkit.com
All times are Bangkok time (UTC+7).
We organize none of these events and sell no tickets. Plans change, so check the organizer's page before you go.
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Koh Phangan is where Thailand's party reputation comes from. The Full Moon Party fills Haad Rin's Sunrise Beach once a month, with bars playing different music along the sand, fire shows and a start around 21:00. Dates sometimes move a day when the full moon falls on a Buddhist holy day, as with 27 October 2026. Smaller Half Moon and Jungle parties run in forest clearings inland from Ban Tai, and a weekly Friday jungle party runs there too. Haad Rin is reached from Thong Sala pier by shared taxi, tuk-tuk or minibus, and an entry ticket is sold at the beach alleys on the night.
Around Ban Tai
Ban Tai, or Baan Tai, is on Phangan's south coast, about a 10-minute drive south of Thong Sala according to one listing. It is the base for the island's forest parties: the Halfmoon Magic Forest is about ten minutes inland from the Ban Tai strip, and Jungle Experience and a weekly Friday jungle party also stage nights in the trees. On the beach, Ku Club is an open-air venue with resident performers. Wat Khao Tham, a hillside temple and meditation centre, overlooks the coast from above the village. Songthaew pick-ups serve the area.
Other dates of this event
From the history of Koh Phangan
- 2025 Halfmoon Festival winter season 2025-26 Halfmoon announced a winter season from December 2025 to February 2026 with more than 20 international DJs on Koh Phangan.
- 2024 Halfmoon Festival expands to a two-day format (2024) In 2024 Halfmoon ran two-day parties every fortnight on Koh Phangan: a day party at Harmony Beach Club, then a night in the Magical Forest.
- 2023 Full Moon Party post-pandemic peak (February 2023) About 50,000 tourists attended the Full Moon Party on 5 February 2023, the largest post-pandemic crowd reported.
- 2022 Full Moon Party returns after the pandemic (April 2022) The Full Moon Party came back on 16 April 2022 after a two-year break caused by COVID-19, with more than 10,000 people at Haad Rin.