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Bhutan Holidays 2025: Public Holidays in Bhutan
Bhutan has 17 national public holidays in 2025. 12 of them fall on a weekday and 5 on a weekend. There are 4 long weekends and 5 more if you take a bridge day off.
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National public holidays · #17
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Regional holidays
Bhutan public holidays 2025 — full list
| Date | Holiday | Local name | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Solstice | དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་གི་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Traditional Day of Offering | སྔར་སྲོལ་འབུལ་བའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Weekend | Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung | མཐུ་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Lord Buddha's Parinirvana | སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche | ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday |
| First Sermon of Lord Buddha | སྟོན་པ་མཆོག་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར་བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday | |
| Blessed Rainy Day | རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday | |
| Dassain | ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Coronation of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསེར་ཁྲི་མངའ་གསོལ་གྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Descending Day of Lord Buddha | རྒྱལ་བ་ལྷ་ལས་བབས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday | |
| National Day | རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དུས་ཆེན་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
Data: Nager.Date public holiday database and the vacanza/holidays library (both MIT licence). Dates of religious holidays based on the lunar calendar may shift by a day after official announcements.
Bhutan holiday calendar 2025
- National holiday
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Long weekends in Bhutan 2025
4 long weekends come for free, and 5 more need just one or two days of leave. Plan your trips around these dates.
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Thu 2 Jan – Sun 5 Jan
Take off Fri 3 Jan
4days
Thu 30 Jan – Sun 2 Feb
Take off Fri 31 Jan
3days
Fri 21 Feb – Sun 23 Feb
No leave needed
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Fri 28 Feb – Sun 2 Mar
No leave needed
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Fri 2 May – Sun 4 May
No leave needed
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Sat 26 Jul – Mon 28 Jul
No leave needed
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Sat 20 Sep – Tue 23 Sep
Take off Mon 22 Sep
4days
Thu 2 Oct – Sun 5 Oct
Take off Fri 3 Oct
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Sat 8 Nov – Tue 11 Nov
Take off Mon 10 Nov
Planning a trip to Bhutan?
On public holidays banks, offices and many shops close, public transport often runs a Sunday timetable and popular destinations get busy and more expensive. Book early around long weekends.
Frequently asked questions about holidays in Bhutan
How many public holidays does Bhutan have in 2025?
17 national public holidays. That ranks Bhutan #17 of 235 countries by number of holidays in 2025.
How many long weekends are there in Bhutan in 2025?
4 long weekends of three or more days without taking leave, and 5 more with a bridge day. Best deal: take 1 day off (Fri 3 Jan) for 4 days in a row from 2 January.
Which Bhutan public holidays fall on a weekend in 2025?
Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King (Sat 22 Feb), Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King (Sun 23 Feb), Losar (Sat 1 Mar), Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche (Sat 5 Jul) and Coronation of His Majesty the King (Sat 1 Nov). Whether a substitute day off is given depends on national law.
Which month has the most public holidays in Bhutan?
February, with 4 national holidays: Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King and Losar.