Public holidays · Asia · 2027
Bhutan Holidays 2027: Public Holidays in Bhutan
Bhutan has 18 national public holidays in 2027. 11 of them fall on a weekday and 7 on a weekend. There are 8 long weekends and 2 more if you take a bridge day off.
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National public holidays · #22
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Bhutan public holidays 2027 — full list
| Date | Holiday | Local name | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend | Winter Solstice Next | དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་གི་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Traditional Day of Offering | སྔར་སྲོལ་འབུལ་བའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་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 |
| Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་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 | |
| Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung | མཐུ་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་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 | |
| Weekend | Dassain | ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday |
| 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 | |
| Weekend | 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 2027
- National holiday
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Long weekends in Bhutan 2027
8 long weekends come for free, and 2 more need just one or two days of leave. Plan your trips around these dates.
3days
Fri 8 Jan – Sun 10 Jan
No leave needed
3days
Sat 6 Feb – Mon 8 Feb
No leave needed
4days
Sat 20 Feb – Tue 23 Feb
No leave needed
3days
Fri 16 Apr – Sun 18 Apr
No leave needed
4days
Thu 20 May – Sun 23 May
Take off Fri 21 May
3days
Fri 6 Aug – Sun 8 Aug
No leave needed
3days
Fri 24 Sep – Sun 26 Sep
No leave needed
3days
Sat 30 Oct – Mon 1 Nov
No leave needed
4days
Thu 11 Nov – Sun 14 Nov
Take off Fri 12 Nov
3days
Fri 17 Dec – Sun 19 Dec
No leave needed
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 2027?
18 national public holidays. That ranks Bhutan #22 of 234 countries by number of holidays in 2027.
How many long weekends are there in Bhutan in 2027?
8 long weekends of three or more days without taking leave, and 2 more with a bridge day. Best deal: take 1 day off (Fri 21 May) for 4 days in a row from 20 May.
Which Bhutan public holidays fall on a weekend in 2027?
Winter Solstice (Sat 2 Jan), Losar (Sun 7 Feb), Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King (Sun 21 Feb), Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo (Sun 2 May), Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche (Sun 13 Jun), Dassain (Sat 9 Oct) and Descending Day of Lord Buddha (Sat 20 Nov). Whether a substitute day off is given depends on national law.
Which month has the most public holidays in Bhutan?
February, with 5 national holidays: Losar, Losar, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King and Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King.