Public Holidays in Myanmar 2026/2027

Public holidays in Myanmar in 2026/2027: dates and weekdays, what closes, long weekends and regional holidays.

Dates marked Projected are calculated and may change once they are announced.

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Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon

Tuesday, November 24

National holidays in 2027

20public holidays

Long weekends

13long weekends

4 need a bridge day

2026

2027

2026

National public holidays

Thursday, January 1
New Year's Day နိုင်ငံတကာနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Sunday, January 4
Independence Day လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Thursday, February 12 – Friday, February 13
Union Day ပြည်ထောင်စုနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, February 16 – Tuesday, February 17
Chinese New Year တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, March 2
Full Moon Day of Tabaung တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, March 2
Peasants' Day တောင်သူလယ်သမားနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Friday, March 27
Armed Forces Day တပ်မတော်နေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Saturday, April 11 – Sunday, April 19
Myanmar New Year (Thingyan holidays) မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ

Banks closedShops may be closedPublic transport may be reducedCrowdsBook ahead
Thursday, April 30
Full Moon Day of Kason ကဆုန်လပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Friday, May 1
May Day မေဒေးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Thursday, May 28
Eid al-Adha အီဒုလ်အဿွဟာနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Sunday, July 19
Martyrs' Day အာဇာနည်နေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Wednesday, July 29
Full Moon Day of Waso ဝါဆိုလပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Sunday, October 25 – Tuesday, October 27
Thadingyut Holidays (3 days) သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closedPublic transport may be reduced
Sunday, November 8
Diwali (Deepavali) ဒီပါဝလီနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Tuesday, November 24
Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon တန်ဆောင်တိုင်လပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Friday, December 4
National Day အမျိုးသားနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Friday, December 25
Christmas Day ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed

Long weekends and bridge days

Thu, Jan 1 – Sun, Jan 4
New Year's Day

Bridge day: take Fri, Jan 2 off
Thu, Feb 12 – Tue, Feb 17
Union Day, Chinese New Year

Long weekend
Sat, Feb 28 – Mon, Mar 2
Full Moon Day of Tabaung, Peasants' Day

Long weekend
Fri, Mar 27 – Sun, Mar 29
Armed Forces Day

Long weekend
Sat, Apr 11 – Sun, Apr 19
Myanmar New Year (Thingyan holidays)

Long weekend
Thu, Apr 30 – Sun, May 3
Full Moon Day of Kason, May Day

Long weekend
Thu, May 28 – Sun, May 31
Eid al-Adha

Bridge day: take Fri, May 29 off
Sat, Oct 24 – Tue, Oct 27
Thadingyut Holidays (3 days)

Long weekend
Sat, Nov 21 – Tue, Nov 24
Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon

Bridge day: take Mon, Nov 23 off
Fri, Dec 4 – Sun, Dec 6
National Day

Long weekend
Fri, Dec 25 – Sun, Dec 27
Christmas Day

Long weekend

2027

National public holidays

Friday, January 1
New Year's Day နိုင်ငံတကာနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, January 4
Independence Day လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Friday, January 8
Karen New Year ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Projected
Saturday, February 6
Chinese New Year တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Friday, February 12
Union Day ပြည်ထောင်စုနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Tuesday, March 2
Peasants' Day တောင်သူလယ်သမားနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, March 22
Full Moon Day of Tabaung တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Saturday, March 27
Armed Forces Day တပ်မတော်နေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Tuesday, April 13 – Wednesday, April 21
Myanmar New Year (Thingyan holidays) မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closedPublic transport may be reducedCrowdsBook ahead
Saturday, May 1
May Day မေဒေးနေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, May 17
Eid al-Adha အီဒုလ်အဿွဟာနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Thursday, May 20
Full Moon Day of Kason ကဆုန်လပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Sunday, July 18
Full Moon Day of Waso ဝါဆိုလပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Monday, July 19
Martyrs' Day အာဇာနည်နေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Thursday, October 14 – Saturday, October 16
Thadingyut Holidays (3 days) သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closedPublic transport may be reduced
Friday, October 29
Diwali (Deepavali) ဒီပါဝလီနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Saturday, November 13
Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon တန်ဆောင်တိုင်လပြည့်နေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Tuesday, November 23
National Day အမျိုးသားနေ့ Projected

Banks closedShops may be closed
Saturday, December 25
Christmas Day ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့

Banks closedShops may be closed
Tuesday, December 28
Karen New Year ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Projected

Long weekends and bridge days

Fri, Jan 1 – Mon, Jan 4
New Year's Day, Independence Day

Long weekend
Fri, Jan 8 – Sun, Jan 10
Karen New Year

Long weekend
Fri, Feb 12 – Sun, Feb 14
Union Day

Long weekend
Sat, Feb 27 – Tue, Mar 2
Peasants' Day

Bridge day: take Mon, Mar 1 off
Sat, Mar 20 – Mon, Mar 22
Full Moon Day of Tabaung

Long weekend
Tue, Apr 13 – Wed, Apr 21
Myanmar New Year (Thingyan holidays)

Long weekend
Sat, May 15 – Mon, May 17
Eid al-Adha

Long weekend
Thu, May 20 – Sun, May 23
Full Moon Day of Kason

Bridge day: take Fri, May 21 off
Sat, Jul 17 – Mon, Jul 19
Full Moon Day of Waso, Martyrs' Day

Long weekend
Thu, Oct 14 – Sun, Oct 17
Thadingyut Holidays (3 days)

Long weekend
Fri, Oct 29 – Sun, Oct 31
Diwali (Deepavali)

Long weekend
Sat, Nov 20 – Tue, Nov 23
National Day

Bridge day: take Mon, Nov 22 off
Sat, Dec 25 – Tue, Dec 28
Karen New Year

Bridge day: take Mon, Dec 27 off

2026

National public holidays

Long weekends and bridge days

2027

National public holidays

Long weekends and bridge days

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