Public holidays in Bhutan 2026
There are 18 nationwide public holidays in 2026. Another 4 apply only in some regions – the table shows where. The exact list for each region is on its own page.
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18 national and 4 regional holidays in 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Local name | Applies in | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | Winter Solstice | དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་གི་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Monday | Traditional Day of Offering | སྔར་སྲོལ་འབུལ་བའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Wednesday | Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Thursday | Losar | གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Saturday | Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Sunday | Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Monday | Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Sunday | Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung | མཐུ་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Saturday | Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Sunday | Lord Buddha's Parinirvana | སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Wednesday | Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche | ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | nationwide | ||
| Saturday | First Sermon of Lord Buddha | སྟོན་པ་མཆོག་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར་བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | nationwide | ||
| Thursday | Thimphu Drubchoe | ཐིམ་རྫོང་ལྷ་མོའི་དངོས་འཆམ་མཇལ་རྒྱུའི་ངལ་གསོ། | Thimphu | ||
| Monday | Thimphu Tshechu | ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ། | Thimphu | ||
| Tuesday | Thimphu Tshechu | ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ། | Thimphu | ||
| Wednesday | Blessed Rainy Day | རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ། | nationwide | ||
| Wednesday | Thimphu Tshechu | རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ། | Thimphu | ||
| Wednesday | Dassain | ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། | nationwide | ||
| Sunday | Coronation of His Majesty the King | མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསེར་ཁྲི་མངའ་གསོལ་གྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Sunday | Descending Day of Lord Buddha | རྒྱལ་བ་ལྷ་ལས་བབས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ། | nationwide | ||
| Wednesday | Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day | མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide | ||
| Thursday | National Day | རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དུས་ཆེན་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ། | nationwide |
Days marked "observed" are substitute days off when a holiday falls on a weekend. Holidays based on a lunar calendar can shift by a day once the official announcement is made.
Public holidays by region
| region | public holidays | on Mon–Fri |
|---|---|---|
| Public holidays 2026 Bumthang | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Chhukha | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Dagana | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Gasa | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Haa | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Lhuentse | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Monggar | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Paro | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Pema Gatshel | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Punakha | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Samdrup Jongkhar | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Samtse | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Sarpang | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Thimphu | 22 | 14 |
| Public holidays 2026 Trashi Yangtse | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Trashigang | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Trongsa | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Tsirang | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Wangdue Phodrang | 18 | 10 |
| Public holidays 2026 Zhemgang | 18 | 10 |
Long weekends 2026
14 times a public holiday lies close to a weekend – with a little leave it becomes a long weekend: (nationwide)
| Take leave | Off | Days of leave | Days off | Ratio | Occasion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 20 Jan, Wed 21 Jan, Thu 22 Jan, Fri 23 Jan | 17 Jan – 25 Jan 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Traditional Day of Offering |
| Mon 16 Feb, Tue 17 Feb | 14 Feb – 19 Feb 2026 | 2 | 6 | 3 | Losar, Losar |
| Fri 20 Feb | 18 Feb – 23 Feb 2026 | 1 | 6 | 6 | Losar, Losar, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King |
| Tue 24 Feb, Wed 25 Feb, Thu 26 Feb, Fri 27 Feb | 21 Feb – 1 Mar 2026 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King |
| Mon 22 Jun, Tue 23 Jun | 20 Jun – 24 Jun 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche |
| Thu 25 Jun, Fri 26 Jun | 24 Jun – 28 Jun 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche |
| Mon 21 Sep, Tue 22 Sep | 19 Sep – 23 Sep 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Blessed Rainy Day |
| Thu 24 Sep, Fri 25 Sep | 23 Sep – 27 Sep 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Blessed Rainy Day |
| Mon 19 Oct, Tue 20 Oct | 17 Oct – 21 Oct 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Dassain |
| Thu 22 Oct, Fri 23 Oct | 21 Oct – 25 Oct 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Dassain |
| Mon 9 Nov, Tue 10 Nov | 7 Nov – 11 Nov 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day |
| Thu 12 Nov, Fri 13 Nov | 11 Nov – 15 Nov 2026 | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day |
| Mon 14 Dec, Tue 15 Dec, Wed 16 Dec | 12 Dec – 17 Dec 2026 | 3 | 6 | 2 | National Day |
| Fri 18 Dec | 17 Dec – 20 Dec 2026 | 1 | 4 | 4 | National Day |
Counted are gaps of up to four working days between a public holiday and the weekend or another public holiday. "Ratio" = days off per day of leave. Weekends follow the local working week.
Dates are generated from the open-source library python-holidays and automatically cross-checked against Nager.Date and the public Google Calendar holiday calendars; every holiday on a working day must be confirmed by a second source. Official announcements take precedence, especially for holidays that depend on the moon or are declared at short notice.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does Bhutan have in 2026?
18 nationwide holidays, plus 4 that apply only in some regions. 8 of them fall on a weekend in 2026.
What is the next public holiday in Bhutan?
As of 9 Nov 2026, the next nationwide holiday is Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day on Wednesday, 11 Nov 2026.
Which public holiday gives the best long weekend in 2026?
Losar, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King: take 1 day of leave (20 Feb) and you get 6 days off in a row, 18 Feb – 23 Feb 2026.
Which region has the most public holidays in 2026?
Thimphu with 22; 19 regions have the fewest with 18.
Sources
- Data: python-holidays 0.105 (MIT licence), country code BT (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
- Cross-check: Nager.Date public holiday API (country not covered) (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
- Cross-check: Google Calendar public holiday calendar (en.bt) (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
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Other years
- Public holidays 2026
- Public holidays 2027
- Public holidays 2028