Public holidays in Bhutan 2023

18 nationwide public holidays and 4 regional or local holidays in 2023.

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Nationwide holidays 2023

Regional and local holidays 2023

Some holidays apply only in certain regions or municipalities. Local and municipal holidays may be incomplete; official local announcements take precedence.

These holidays do not apply nationwide and are not counted in the countdown, long weekends or bridge days.

Date	Holiday	Applies in
Wednesday 20 September 2023	Thimphu Drubchoe ཐིམ་རྫོང་ལྷ་མོའི་དངོས་འཆམ་མཇལ་རྒྱུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
Sunday 24 September 2023	Thimphu Tshechu ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
Monday 25 September 2023	Thimphu Tshechu ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
Tuesday 26 September 2023	Thimphu Tshechu ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu

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Date	Holiday	Type
Monday 2 January 2023	Winter Solstice	Nationwide
Sunday 22 January 2023	Traditional Day of Offering	Nationwide
Tuesday 21 February 2023	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	Nationwide
Tuesday 21 February 2023	Losar	Nationwide
Wednesday 22 February 2023	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	Nationwide
Wednesday 22 February 2023	Losar	Nationwide
Thursday 23 February 2023	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	Nationwide
Sunday 30 April 2023	Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung	Nationwide
Tuesday 2 May 2023	Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo	Nationwide
Sunday 4 June 2023	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana	Nationwide
Wednesday 28 June 2023	Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche	Nationwide
Friday 21 July 2023	First Sermon of Lord Buddha	Nationwide
Wednesday 20 September 2023	Thimphu Drubchoe	Regional
Sunday 24 September 2023	Blessed Rainy Day	Nationwide
Sunday 24 September 2023	Thimphu Tshechu	Regional
Monday 25 September 2023	Thimphu Tshechu	Regional
Tuesday 26 September 2023	Thimphu Tshechu	Regional
Tuesday 24 October 2023	Dassain	Nationwide
Wednesday 1 November 2023	Coronation of His Majesty the King	Nationwide
Saturday 4 November 2023	Descending Day of Lord Buddha	Nationwide
Saturday 11 November 2023	Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day	Nationwide
Sunday 17 December 2023	National Day	Nationwide

Long weekends and bridge days 2023

Based on nationwide holidays and the weekend in Bhutan (Saturday and Sunday). Regional, local and group holidays are not included.

Long weekends

Sat 31 Dec – Mon 2 Jan 2023 · 3 days offWinter SolsticeTypically in Thimphu: high 5°C (41°F), low −5°C (23°F), rain on 7% of daysShow on calendar ↓
Tue 21 Feb – Thu 23 Feb · 3 days offBirth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, LosarTypically in Thimphu: high 7°C (45°F), low −4°C (25°F), rain on 16% of daysShow on calendar ↓
Fri 21 Jul – Sun 23 Jul · 3 days offFirst Sermon of Lord BuddhaTypically in Thimphu: high 16°C (61°F), low 9°C (48°F), rain on 100% of daysShow on calendar ↓

Bridge days

Mon 20 Feb: take 1 day off, get 6 days in a row (Sat 18 Feb – Thu 23 Feb)Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, LosarTypically in Thimphu: high 7°C (45°F), low −4°C (25°F), rain on 10% of daysShow on calendar ↓
Fri 24 Feb: take 1 day off, get 6 days in a row (Tue 21 Feb – Sun 26 Feb)Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, LosarTypically in Thimphu: high 7°C (45°F), low −4°C (25°F), rain on 16% of daysShow on calendar ↓
Mon 1 May: take 1 day off, get 4 days in a row (Sat 29 Apr – Tue 2 May)Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung, Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk GyalpoTypically in Thimphu: high 12°C (54°F), low 1°C (34°F), rain on 74% of daysShow on calendar ↓
Mon 23 Oct: take 1 day off, get 4 days in a row (Sat 21 Oct – Tue 24 Oct)DassainTypically in Thimphu: high 12°C (54°F), low 3°C (37°F), rain on 19% of daysShow on calendar ↓

Leave planner 2023

Choose how many leave days you can take for one break. The planner finds the breaks that give the most days off in a row around nationwide holidays and weekends, and marks the leave days on the calendar below.

Leave days per break: 3

Longest break with up to 3 leave days: Fri 17 Feb – Sun 26 Feb — 10 days off for 3 leave days (Fri 17 Feb, Mon 20 Feb, Fri 24 Feb).Show on calendar ↓

Take 1 day off (Fri 20 Jan) get 3 days in a rowFri 20 Jan – Sun 22 Jan · Traditional Day of OfferingShow on calendar ↓
Take 1 day off (Mon 20 Feb) get 6 days in a rowSat 18 Feb – Thu 23 Feb · Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, LosarShow on calendar ↓
Take 1 day off (Mon 1 May) get 4 days in a rowSat 29 Apr – Tue 2 May · Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung, Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk GyalpoShow on calendar ↓
Take 1 day off (Thu 20 Jul) get 4 days in a rowThu 20 Jul – Sun 23 Jul · First Sermon of Lord BuddhaShow on calendar ↓
Take 1 day off (Mon 23 Oct) get 4 days in a rowSat 21 Oct – Tue 24 Oct · DassainShow on calendar ↓
Take 1 day off (Mon 1 Jan) get 4 days in a rowSat 30 Dec – Tue 2 Jan 2024 · Winter SolsticeShow on calendar ↓