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Myanmar (Shan) : public and bank holidays, closure of banks, stock exchanges, school vacations
Myanmar (Shan) : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
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| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday March 2, 2023 | Paesants' Day | Secular holiday |  |
| Sunday March 5, 2023 | Taboung Fullmoon Day | Secular holiday | |
| Monday March 27, 2023 | Armed Forces Day (Tatmadaw Day) | Secular holiday | |
| Sunday April 9, 2023 | Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan | Secular holiday | |
| Monday April 10, 2023 | Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan | Secular holiday | |
| Tuesday April 11, 2023 | Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday April 12, 2023 | Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan | Secular holiday | |
| Thursday April 13, 2023 | Thingyan Water Festival | Secular holiday | |
| Friday April 14, 2023 | Thingyan Water Festival | Secular holiday | |
| Saturday April 15, 2023 | Thingyan Water Festival | Secular holiday | |
| Sunday April 16, 2023 | Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan | Secular holiday | |
| Monday April 17, 2023 | Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan | Secular holiday | |
| Monday May 1, 2023 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 | Kason Full Moon Day | Secular holiday | |
| Thursday June 1, 2023 | Beginning of school year (public schools) | School holidays | |
| Thursday June 29, 2023 | Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) | cards/flowers | |
| Wednesday July 19, 2023 | Martyrs Day | Secular holiday | |
| Tuesday August 1, 2023 | Waso Robe Donation Ceremony | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
Paesants' Day
-Thursday March 2, 2023
Secular holiday : In tribute the the country's main human resource.
Taboung Fullmoon Day
-Sunday March 5, 2023
Secular holiday : The lunar month of Tabaung (Taboung) brings the annual Shwedagon Festival, the largest paya pwe (pagoda festival) in Myanmar. The full-moon day in Tabaung is also an auspicious occasion for the construction of new payas and local paya festivals are held. Taboung or Tabaung is a local month fallin in February-March.
Armed Forces Day (Tatmadaw Day)
-Monday March 27, 2023
Secular holiday : Resistance or Armed Forces Day, celebrated with parades and firework. Since 1989, the Tatmadaw has made it is tradition to pardon a number of prisoners on Armed Forces Day.
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
-Sunday April 9, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
-Monday April 10, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
-Tuesday April 11, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
-Wednesday April 12, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Thingyan Water Festival
-Thursday April 13, 2023
Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Thingyan Water Festival
-Friday April 14, 2023
Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Thingyan Water Festival
-Saturday April 15, 2023
Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
-Sunday April 16, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
-Monday April 17, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Labor Day/May Day
-Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Kason Full Moon Day
-Wednesday May 3, 2023
Secular holiday : Kason is a local month falling in April-May
Beginning of school year (public schools)
-Thursday June 1, 2023
School holidays :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
-Thursday June 29, 2023
cards/flowers : The second main celebration of Islam. It cele ates A aham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
Martyrs Day
-Wednesday July 19, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the assassination of independence leaders in 1947
Waso Robe Donation Ceremony
-Tuesday August 1, 2023
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Lasts 2 weeks
