THAI UNITS OF MEASURES AND WEIGHTS
Metric introduced in Thailand in 1923, compulsory from 1947
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Approximately equal to:
With British & Metric British Metric
Equivalents
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Measure of 1 kabiet 3/16 inch 5 mm
Length 4 kabiet 1 nieu 3/4 inch 2.083 cm
0.820 in
12 nieu 1 keub 10 inches 25 cm
0.820 ft
2 keub 1 sawk 1 ft 7 1/2 in 50 cm
1.640 ft
4 sauk 1 wah 6 ft 6 1/4 in 2 m
2.187 yd
20 wah 1 sen 43.74 yards 40 m
400 sen 1 yote 9.942 miles 16 km
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Measure of 1 sq wah 4.784 sq yards 4 sq m
Surface 1 sq wah 0.000989 acres
0.000247 acres 1 sq m
100 sq wah 1 ngan 478.4 sq yards 400 sq m
4 ngan 1 rai 2/5 acre 1,600 sq m
0.395 acre 0.16 ha
1011.736 sq wah 4046.9 sq.m. 1 acre
250,000 sq wah 625 rai 1 sq km
6.25 rai 1 hectare
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Measure of 1 standard tanan 1.760 pt 1 liter
Capacity 20 standard tanan 1 standard sat 4.40 gal 20 liters
50 standard sat 1 standard ban 220 gal 1,000 liters
2 standard ban 1 standard kwien 440 gal 2,000 liters
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Paddy & Rice 1 coyan 16 pikuls paddy 2,133 1/3 lbs 968 kgs
Measure or 22 pikuls cargo rice 1.31 tons 1,330 kgs
1 kwien 23 pikuls white rice 1.37 tons 1,391 kgs
The rice miller's kwien is:
82 baskets of 40 lbs each 24 pikuls 1.46 tons 1,488 kgs
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Weight 1 fung 28.94 gr 1.87 grams
2 fung 1 salung 57.87 gr 3.75 grams
4 salungs 1 baht 0.529 oz 15 grams
1 baht (tical) 1/2 oz (AVDP) 15 grams
4 baht 1 tamlung 2 1/10 oz 60 grams
2.116 oz
10 tamlung 1 catty 1.323 lb 600 grams
2 catty 1 chang 2.646 lb 1.2 kg
100 catty 1 picul 132.28 lb 60 kg
20 tamlung 1 chang (kati) 2 5/8 lbs 1.2 kgs
50 chang 1 hap (pikul) 133 1/3 lbs 60 kgs
20 picul 1 koyan 1.181 ton 1.2 ton
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Customs 1 standard carat 20 centigram
Weight 1 standard catty 600 grams
100 standard catty 1 std picul 60 kilograms
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