The Songkran Festival, also known as the water festival, is Thailand’s merriest festival. An important traditional practice on this occasion is that young people visit their relatives and elders in their hometown and pour lustral water onto the palms of their elders as a gesture of respect. The water throwing, so often associated with Songkran, is the part that is normally enjoyed by young people the most.

For the safety of Songkran celebrants, as well as to promote the Thai tradition, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) urges the general public in Bangkok to refrain from:
- drink-driving,
- getting wasted and creating a scene in public,
- wearing inappropriate clothing,
- turning up the speakers loud,
- smearing powder on other people,
- using high-pressure water guns.