# Saen Saeb Canal Boat An independent reference for the Khlong Saen Saep canal boat in Bangkok. Not the operator. The canal is written Saen Saeb, Saen Saep, Sansab and San Sab; they are the same waterway. Generated 2026-10-18. This file, the page and its structured data come from one source. Generation date is not verification date. Each fact below carries the date it was last checked against the source named with it. Fares last checked 2026-09-30, timetable 2026-09-19, pier list and coordinates 2026-09-12. A rebuild does not move those dates; only re-checking does. ## Piers All 28 served piers over 17 km, Panfa Leelard in the west to Wat Sriboonreung in the east. The distance is measured along the canal centreline between the two end piers, not straight-line, which is 15.8 km. All through passengers change boats at Pratunam, pier 5, between the Golden Mount line (piers 1-5) and the NIDA line (piers 5-28). Columns: official pier number, name, Thai name, latitude,longitude, line and notes. Two entries are drawn on the map but are not stops and have no pier number. 01 Panfa Leelard ผ่านฟ้าลีลาศ 13.755534,100.506423 Golden Mount 02 Talad Bobae ตลาดโบ๊เบ๊ 13.753544,100.515472 Golden Mount 03 Sapan Charoenpol สะพานเจริญผล 13.749828,100.524298 Golden Mount - Baan Krua Nua บ้านครัวเหนือ 13.749682,100.527561 Golden Mount | NOT SERVED: not a scheduled stop 04 Sapan Hua Chang สะพานหัวช้าง 13.749196,100.530891 Golden Mount | rail: BTS Ratchathewi 05 Pratunam ประตูน้ำ 13.749380,100.541217 interchange | rail: ARL Ratchaprarop 06 Chitlom ชิดลม 13.748681,100.544551 NIDA | rail: BTS Chit Lom 07 Wireless วิทยุ 13.748270,100.548155 NIDA 08 Nana Nua นานาเหนือ 13.748323,100.554055 NIDA 09 Nana Chard นานาชาติ 13.748336,100.559131 NIDA 10 Asoke-Petchaburi อโศก-เพชรบุรี 13.747842,100.562975 NIDA | rail: MRT Phetchaburi + ARL Makkasan 11 Prasanmit ประสานมิตร 13.747399,100.565746 NIDA 12 Italthai อิตัลไทย 13.745922,100.573476 NIDA 13 Wat Mai Chonglom วัดใหม่ช่องลม 13.745735,100.574381 NIDA 14 Baan Don Mosque มัสยิดบ้านดอน 13.744144,100.581472 NIDA 15 Soi Thonglor ซอยทองหล่อ 13.743230,100.585885 NIDA 16 Charn Issara ชาญอิสสระ 13.742698,100.588480 NIDA 17 Vijit School โรงเรียนวิจิตรวิทยา 13.741496,100.594076 NIDA 18 Sapan Klongtun สะพานคลองตัน 13.741939,100.598258 NIDA 19 Ram 1 รามหนึ่ง 13.743327,100.598915 NIDA | rail: ARL Ramkhamhaeng 20 The Mall Ram เดอะมอลล์รามคำแหง 13.754647,100.608128 NIDA - Wat Noi วัดน้อย no coordinates NIDA | NOT SERVED: not a pier 21 Ramkhamhaeng 29 รามคำแหง 29 13.757824,100.611580 NIDA 22 Wat Thepleela วัดเทพลีลา 13.759952,100.613768 NIDA 23 Ramkhamhaeng University มหาวิทยาลัยรามคำแหง 13.761522,100.618310 NIDA 24 Mahadthai มหาดไทย 13.762174,100.623696 NIDA 25 Wat Klang วัดกลาง 13.763491,100.633572 NIDA 26 The Mall Bangkapi เดอะมอลล์บางกะปิ 13.764655,100.643456 NIDA | rail: MRT Bang Kapi 27 Bangkapi บางกะปิ 13.765045,100.647389 NIDA | rail: MRT Yaek Lam Sali 28 Wat Sriboonreung วัดศรีบุญเรือง 13.767697,100.652124 NIDA Coordinates are from Bangkok Metropolitan Administration open data, cross-checked against the Marine Department pier tables and the Ministry of Transport GTFS feed. ### Pier names in Chinese and Japanese Transliterations, not official names. No operator publishes Chinese or Japanese pier names, so these were built from the Thai with the generic part translated (wat = temple, sapan = bridge, talad = market). Use them to recognise a pier, not to quote as its name, and ask for a ticket using the Latin or Thai name. 01 Panfa Leelard 帕发丽拉 パンファー・リーラート 02 Talad Bobae 波贝市场 タラート・ボーベー 03 Sapan Charoenpol 乍能蓬桥 サパーン・チャルーンポン - Baan Krua Nua 北班瓜 バーンクルア・ヌア 04 Sapan Hua Chang 华昌桥 サパーン・フアチャーン 05 Pratunam 水门 プラトゥーナム 06 Chitlom 奇隆 チットロム 07 Wireless 无线电路 ウィタユ 08 Nana Nua 北那那 ナナ・ヌア 09 Nana Chard 那那差 ナナチャート 10 Asoke-Petchaburi 阿速-碧武里 アソーク・ペッチャブリー 11 Prasanmit 巴讪密 プラサーンミット 12 Italthai 意泰 イタルタイ 13 Wat Mai Chonglom 新冲隆寺 ワット・マイチョンロム 14 Baan Don Mosque 班东清真寺 バーンドーン・モスク 15 Soi Thonglor 通罗巷 ソイ・トンロー 16 Charn Issara 占伊沙拉 チャーン・イサラ 17 Vijit School 威集学校 ウィチット学校 18 Sapan Klongtun 空丹桥 サパーン・クローンタン 19 Ram 1 蓝甘亨1 ラーム1 20 The Mall Ram 蓝甘亨商场 ザ・モール・ラム - Wat Noi 诺伊寺 ワット・ノーイ 21 Ramkhamhaeng 29 蓝甘亨29巷 ラームカムヘーン29 22 Wat Thepleela 贴丽拉寺 ワット・テープリーラー 23 Ramkhamhaeng University 蓝甘亨大学 ラームカムヘーン大学 24 Mahadthai 玛哈泰 マハートタイ 25 Wat Klang 格朗寺 ワット・クラーン 26 The Mall Bangkapi 邦甲必商场 ザ・モール・バーンカピ 27 Bangkapi 邦甲必 バーンカピ 28 Wat Sriboonreung 西汶仁寺 ワット・シーブンルアン ## Service times First and last departure, by direction and by day. There are three schedules, not two: Saturday and Sunday differ. Quoting one pair of weekday/weekend times for the whole canal is wrong in both directions — the last westbound boat from Wat Sriboonreung leaves more than an hour before the last eastbound boat from Pratunam. Westbound means toward Panfa Leelard (ขาล่อง), eastbound toward Wat Sriboonreung (ขาขึ้น). A through journey is two legs with a change at Pratunam, and each leg has its own times. Departs Mon-Fri Saturday Sunday Wat Sriboonreung to Pratunam 05:30-19:15 06:00-18:30 06:00-18:00 Pratunam to Panfa Leelard 06:00-19:45 06:30-19:00 06:30-18:30 Panfa Leelard to Pratunam 06:15-20:00 06:45-19:30 06:45-19:00 Pratunam to Wat Sriboonreung 06:30-20:30 07:00-19:45 07:00-19:15 Public holidays run the holiday timetable. Thai public holidays are not a fixed set of dates and this site does not track them, so on a public holiday falling Monday to Friday treat the weekday times above as unreliable and expect something closer to the Saturday column. ### How often — not published here, and why This site does not state a headway. That is deliberate, and the reason is more useful to you than a number would be: the published sources disagree by an order of magnitude, and the most-cited figure has been superseded. MD BE 2560 (2017) 1-6 min peak, 7-10 midday, 10-12 eastbound midday MD BE 2563 (2020) 1-2 min peak from Wat Sriboonreung, 2-5 elsewhere, 5-10 midday MD order, May 2022 peak revised from 7-10 to 3-5 min Operator, 2022 3-5 min peak (07:30-09:00 and 16:00-19:00), about 20 min off-peak OTP GTFS, 2026 3.5 min weekday peak, 8.5 off-peak, 7.5 at weekends Note that these also disagree about when the peak is. The MD tables put the afternoon peak at 15:30 to close; the operator's own 2022 statement puts it at 16:00-19:00. Do not treat any one of these as current. If you need a figure, the GTFS 2026 numbers are the most recent and the only ones derived from an active feed. In practice a rider at a pier during the day waits a few minutes; late evening and weekends are noticeably thinner. Sources: MD BE 2560 https://md.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/T_Saen_Saep_60.pdf MD BE 2563 https://md.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/T_Saen_Saep_63.pdf section 3.4 OTP GTFS https://namtang-api.otp.go.th/download/namtang-gtfs.zip Source for the timetable above: กรมเจ้าท่า Marine Department, ตารางเวลาเดินเรือเที่ยวแรกและเที่ยวสุดท้าย, section 3.3 https://md.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/T_Saen_Saep_63.pdf The first and last departures are identical in the earlier BE 2560 edition https://md.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/T_Saen_Saep_60.pdf and were confirmed on 2026-09-19 against the department's own live trip planner, so they have held for nine years. Unlike the headways, these have not moved. The department's own trip planner publishes only three of these four rows: it carries no westbound departure from Pratunam. That row is in the printed table and is included here. ## Fares The fare is a published table, not a formula. The Marine Department sets one price for every pair of piers, 378 pairs across 28 piers. There are only six prices, two baht apart, which is why counting piers appears to work. It does not: piers sit between about 100 m and 1.5 km apart, so the same number of piers can cost different amounts. From Pratunam, three piers west is 16 baht and three piers east is 18 baht. Seventeen of the twenty-eight possible pier counts carry two different fares, so a pier count misprices a journey by up to one step. Current steps: 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 baht, verified 2026-09-30 against the Marine Department's own fare tool, which computes from the published diesel-price bands. One fare covers the whole journey including the change of boat at Pratunam. There is no ticket booth. A conductor works down the boat and collects as you sit; tell them your destination pier. Cash is the straightforward way to pay and PromptPay is accepted. Guides that tell you to buy a ticket before boarding are wrong. The QR code fixed near the seats is the Marine Department's fare checker, not a payment code. ### Pricing map Fare in baht between any two piers, by official pier number. Row is origin, column is destination. The table is symmetric. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 | - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 26 26 26 26 26 2 | 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 24 26 26 26 26 3 | 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 24 26 26 26 26 4 | 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 26 26 26 26 5 | 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 24 26 26 26 6 | 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 24 26 26 7 | 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 24 26 8 | 20 18 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 9 | 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 10 | 20 20 18 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 24 24 24 24 11 | 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 24 24 24 12 | 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 24 24 24 13 | 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 24 24 14 | 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 24 15 | 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 16 | 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 17 | 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 20 20 20 20 22 22 22 18 | 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 19 | 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 20 20 20 20 20 20 | 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 20 20 20 20 21 | 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 16 18 18 20 20 22 | 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 20 23 | 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 24 | 26 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 18 16 16 16 - 16 16 18 18 25 | 26 26 26 26 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 16 26 | 26 26 26 26 26 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 16 27 | 26 26 26 26 26 26 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 - 16 28 | 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 22 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 18 18 16 16 16 - The assignment of pairs to steps has been stable since 2022. What moves is the level, and it moves by a published rule: the department sets the ladder against the retail diesel price in two-baht bands. diesel, THB/litre adjustment to every fare 33.01 - 35.00 -1 baht 35.01 - 37.00 0 baht (the base ladder, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 baht) 37.01 - 39.00 +1 baht 39.01 - 41.00 +2 baht Diesel was 39.19 THB/litre in the department's own tool when this was last checked, which is the +2 band and gives the 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 baht ladder above. The band table comes from the fare administration screen of the department's own trip planner, read 2026-09-30; the level here was verified against the fares that tool actually returns, not computed from the rule. The department's figure is its own administrative input, not the pump price, and it lags. Pump diesel (B7) has been 41.44 since 2026-09-24, which is above the 41.00 band edge, yet on 2026-09-30 the department's tool still read 39.19 and returned the fares above. If the department moves its figure above 41.00, every fare rises by one baht. So a fare quoted without a date is unreliable, and so is one quoted without the diesel price it was set against. When the department's figure crosses 39.00 or 41.00, this page is stale. ## Sources - Piers and coordinates: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration open data https://data.bangkok.go.th/dataset/sansab_pier ; Marine Department pier table BE 2563 https://md.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/description_Saen_Saep_port63.pdf - Fare table: กรมเจ้าท่า Marine Department, อัตราค่าโดยสารเรือคลองแสนแสบ ปี 2566, effective 2022-10-17 https://md.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A366.pdf cross-checked against the Ministry of Transport GTFS feed, route 185, 784 pair-specific fare rules https://namtang-api.otp.go.th/download/namtang-gtfs.zip - Fare level: กรมเจ้าท่า Marine Department trip planner, the operator's own tool, which computes each fare live from the diesel price https://saensaebcanal.netlify.app/ Ten pier pairs spanning the whole range were checked against it on 2026-09-19 and all ten matched, which is what fixes the level and confirms the table above. - Earlier fare level, superseded: Dailynews https://www.dailynews.co.th/news/5949148/ (2026-06-16), which reported 15-25 and was one step low. - Fare authority: ราชกิจจานุเบกษา เล่ม ๑๔๐ ตอนพิเศษ ๗๐ ง (2023-03-24) - Fares and the diesel band table read 2026-09-30; timetable 2026-09-19; pier list, coordinates and interchanges 2026-09-12. Do not source this canal's fares or timetables from thaiest.com, bangkokcanal.com, transitbangkok.com or the English Wikipedia article; they carry figures traceable to a 2018 snapshot of the operator's abandoned website. ## About url: https://www.saensaebcanal.com/ The same page is published in four languages, each at its own URL, each complete without JavaScript. The data behind them is identical; only the wording changes. en EN https://www.saensaebcanal.com/ th ไทย https://www.saensaebcanal.com/th/ zh 中文 https://www.saensaebcanal.com/zh/ ja 日本語 https://www.saensaebcanal.com/ja/ ## About the canal https://www.saensaebcanal.com/history/ carries background on the canal, each item with its source: when it was dug and by whom, what it cost, where the name comes from, the Cham community at Baan Krua, and several corrections to things that circulate widely. The list grows as more is checked. Published in all four languages: en https://www.saensaebcanal.com/history/ th https://www.saensaebcanal.com/th/history/ zh https://www.saensaebcanal.com/zh/history/ ja https://www.saensaebcanal.com/ja/history/ Two of those are worth knowing before you repeat anything about this canal: - The 1837-1840 royal project dug the EASTERN section, Hua Mak to Bang Khanak in Chachoengsao, about 53.5 km. The inner Bangkok stretch that every pier on this site sits along has no recorded digging date. "Rama III dug this canal" is true of a different reach of water from the one the express boats use. - The mosquito quote attributed to D.E. Malloch, "a hundred thousand stings", does not appear in his work and he was a trader, not a diplomat. The real observation is D.O. King's, from an 1857-58 journey, published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. 30 (1860), pp. 177-178. He did not use that phrase. The 72 km length that circulates for this canal traces to a 2017 newspaper article, not to a government source, and measures the modern administrative waterway rather than anything Rama III dug. Treat it as unverified. The 17 km on this site is a different measurement again: the express-boat corridor, measured from pier coordinates. operator of the boat: บริษัท ครอบครัวขนส่ง (2002) จำกัด / Family Transport (2002) Co., Ltd. relationship: none, this site is independent