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Bhutan Holidays 2029: Public Holidays in Bhutan
Bhutan has 18 national public holidays in 2029. 14 of them fall on a weekday and 4 on a weekend. There are 5 long weekends and 4 more if you take a bridge day off.
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National public holidays · #15
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Regional holidays
Bhutan public holidays 2029 — full list
| Date | Holiday | Local name | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་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 | |
| 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 | |
| Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Lord Buddha's Parinirvana | སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ངལ་གསོལ། | Public holiday |
| Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche | ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | First Sermon of Lord Buddha | སྟོན་པ་མཆོག་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར་བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday |
| Weekend | Blessed Rainy Day | རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday |
| Dassain | ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། | Public holiday | |
| Descending Day of Lord Buddha | རྒྱལ་བ་ལྷ་ལས་བབས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་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 | |
| Weekend | Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | 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 2029
- National holiday
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Long weekends in Bhutan 2029
5 long weekends come for free, and 4 more need just one or two days of leave. Plan your trips around these dates.
3days
Sat 13 Jan – Mon 15 Jan
No leave needed
5days
Wed 14 Feb – Sun 18 Feb
Take off Fri 16 Feb
5days
Wed 21 Feb – Sun 25 Feb
No leave needed
3days
Sat 21 Apr – Mon 23 Apr
No leave needed
4days
Thu 21 Jun – Sun 24 Jun
Take off Fri 22 Jun
4days
Sat 13 Oct – Tue 16 Oct
Take off Mon 15 Oct
3days
Sat 27 Oct – Mon 29 Oct
No leave needed
4days
Thu 1 Nov – Sun 4 Nov
Take off Fri 2 Nov
3days
Sat 15 Dec – Mon 17 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 2029?
18 national public holidays. That ranks Bhutan #15 of 234 countries by number of holidays in 2029.
How many long weekends are there in Bhutan in 2029?
5 long weekends of three or more days without taking leave, and 4 more with a bridge day. Best deal: take 1 day off (Fri 16 Feb) for 5 days in a row from 14 February.
Which Bhutan public holidays fall on a weekend in 2029?
Lord Buddha's Parinirvana (Sun 27 May), First Sermon of Lord Buddha (Sun 15 Jul), Blessed Rainy Day (Sun 23 Sep) and Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day (Sun 11 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.