Public holidays · Asia · 2025
Myanmar Holidays 2025: Public Holidays in Myanmar
Myanmar has 33 national public holidays in 2025. 24 of them fall on a weekday and 9 on a weekend. There are 7 long weekends and 3 more if you take a bridge day off.
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National public holidays · #2
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Regional holidays
Myanmar public holidays 2025 — full list
| Date | Holiday | Local name | Type |
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| New Year's Day | နိုင်ငံတကာနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Independence Day | လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့ | Public holiday |
| Chinese New Year | တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Union Day | ပြည်ထောင်စုနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Peasants' Day | တောင်သူလယ်သမားနေ့ | Public holiday |
| Day off (substituted from 03/22/2025) | အလုပ်ပိတ်ရက် | Public holiday | |
| Full Moon Day of Tabaung | တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Day off (substituted from 03/29/2025) | အလုပ်ပိတ်ရက် | Public holiday | |
| Armed Forces Day | တပ်မတော်နေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday |
| Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday |
| Weekend | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday |
| Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| May Day | မေဒေးနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Full Moon Day of Kason | ကဆုန်လပြည့်နေ့ | Public holiday |
| Weekend | Eid al-Adha | အီဒုလ်အဿွဟာနေ့ | Public holiday |
| Full Moon Day of Waso | ဝါဆိုလပြည့်နေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Weekend | Martyrs' Day | အာဇာနည်နေ့ | Public holiday |
| Weekend | Thadingyut Holidays | သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday |
| Thadingyut Holidays | သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Thadingyut Holidays | သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ | Public holiday | |
| Diwali | ဒီပါဝလီနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Day off (substituted from 11/08/2025) | အလုပ်ပိတ်ရက် | Public holiday | |
| Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon | တန်ဆောင်တိုင်လပြည့်နေ့ | Public holiday | |
| National Day | အမျိုးသားနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Karen New Year | ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Christmas Day | ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ | Public holiday | |
| Day off (substituted from 01/03/2026) | အလုပ်ပိတ်ရက် | 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.
Myanmar holiday calendar 2025
- National holiday
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- Bridge day (take off for a long weekend)
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Long weekends in Myanmar 2025
7 long weekends come for free, and 3 more need just one or two days of leave. Plan your trips around these dates.
5days
Wed 12 Mar – Sun 16 Mar
No leave needed
4days
Thu 27 Mar – Sun 30 Mar
Take off Fri 28 Mar
10days
Sat 12 Apr – Mon 21 Apr
No leave needed
4days
Thu 1 May – Sun 4 May
Take off Fri 2 May
4days
Sat 4 Oct – Tue 7 Oct
No leave needed
4days
Sat 18 Oct – Tue 21 Oct
Take off Mon 20 Oct
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Sat 1 Nov – Tue 4 Nov
No leave needed
3days
Fri 14 Nov – Sun 16 Nov
No leave needed
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Fri 19 Dec – Sun 21 Dec
No leave needed
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Thu 25 Dec – Sun 28 Dec
No leave needed
Myanmar vs its neighbours — public holidays in 2025
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Planning a trip to Myanmar?
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 Myanmar
How many public holidays does Myanmar have in 2025?
33 national public holidays. That ranks Myanmar #2 of 235 countries by number of holidays in 2025.
How many long weekends are there in Myanmar in 2025?
7 long weekends of three or more days without taking leave, and 3 more with a bridge day. Best deal: take 1 day off (Fri 28 Mar) for 4 days in a row from 27 March.
Which Myanmar public holidays fall on a weekend in 2025?
Independence Day (Sat 4 Jan), Peasants' Day (Sun 2 Mar), Myanmar New Year (Sun 13 Apr), Myanmar New Year (Sat 19 Apr), Myanmar New Year (Sun 20 Apr), Full Moon Day of Kason (Sun 11 May), Eid al-Adha (Sat 7 Jun), Martyrs' Day (Sat 19 Jul) and Thadingyut Holidays (Sun 5 Oct). Whether a substitute day off is given depends on national law.
Which month has the most public holidays in Myanmar?
April, with 9 national holidays: Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year and Myanmar New Year.