Pattaya is a famous resort on the Eastern coast of Gulf of Thailand, known as "travelers paradise" , only 165 kilometers from Bangkok. The city of Pattaya is a self governing special municipal area which covers the whole district of Nong Prue and Na Kluea and parts of Huai Yai and Nong Pla Lai. It is located in the heavily industrial Eastern Seaboard zone, along with Si Racha, Laem Chabang, and Chon Buri. However, it remains mostly a tourist city, with very light industry.
Pattaya enjoys a tropical wet and dry climate, which is divided into the following seasons: warm and dry (November to February), hot and humid (March to May), and hot and rainy (June to October). The most comfortable time of year coincides with the peak tourist season, which is over the Christmas and New Year period.
Sporting opportunities abound both on land and water, and include some of thefinest golfing, game fishing, and scuba-diving anywhere in Asia. After dark, Pattaya offers all the allure and magic of a truly vibrant nightlife with a spectacular variety of restaurants, night clubs, bars, discotheques, cocktail lounges and cabarets. Pattaya can be brash, bold, beautiful and bucolic, and offers everything and authentic international beach resort. Pattaya is not only popular beach resort but also famous as a conference, convention and seminar venue, and the grapevine hosts rumours of future developments of varying degrees of plausibility, such as a horse racing track, casinos, and a tram system. Pattaya is also able to offer an excellent range of eating choices and a wide variety of things to do and see and its population is a colorful potpourri of mixed nationalities from near and far.
Nowadays, Pattaya has both become the best known of beach resorts and centers of tourism in Thailand with around 6 million visitors annually. Tourists prefer to visit for here many reasons, including luxury hotels, beautiful beaches, friendly people, excellent shopping, reasonable prices, a wide variety of sports opportunities, and especially for its world-renowned nightlife.