Public holidays in Bhutan 2027

There are 18 nationwide public holidays in 2027. 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 2027

Date	Weekday	Holiday	Local name	Applies in
2 Jan 2027	Saturday	Winter Solstice	དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་གི་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
8 Jan 2027	Friday	Traditional Day of Offering	སྔར་སྲོལ་འབུལ་བའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
7 Feb 2027	Sunday	Losar	གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
8 Feb 2027	Monday	Losar	གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
21 Feb 2027	Sunday	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
22 Feb 2027	Monday	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
23 Feb 2027	Tuesday	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
16 Apr 2027	Friday	Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung	མཐུ་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
2 May 2027	Sunday	Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo	མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
20 May 2027	Thursday	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana	སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
13 Jun 2027	Sunday	Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche	ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
6 Aug 2027	Friday	First Sermon of Lord Buddha	སྟོན་པ་མཆོག་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར་བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
24 Sep 2027	Friday	Blessed Rainy Day	རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
5 Oct 2027	Tuesday	Thimphu Drubchoe	ཐིམ་རྫོང་ལྷ་མོའི་དངོས་འཆམ་མཇལ་རྒྱུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
9 Oct 2027	Saturday	Dassain (estimated)	ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། (ཚོད་དཔག་གི།)	nationwide
10 Oct 2027	Sunday	Thimphu Tshechu	ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
11 Oct 2027	Monday	Thimphu Tshechu	ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
12 Oct 2027	Tuesday	Thimphu Tshechu	ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
1 Nov 2027	Monday	Coronation of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསེར་ཁྲི་མངའ་གསོལ་གྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
11 Nov 2027	Thursday	Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day	མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
20 Nov 2027	Saturday	Descending Day of Lord Buddha	རྒྱལ་བ་ལྷ་ལས་བབས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
17 Dec 2027	Friday	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 2027 Bumthang	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Chhukha	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Dagana	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Gasa	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Haa	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Lhuentse	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Monggar	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Paro	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Pema Gatshel	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Punakha	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Samdrup Jongkhar	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Samtse	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Sarpang	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Thimphu	22	14
Public holidays 2027 Trashi Yangtse	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Trashigang	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Trongsa	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Tsirang	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Wangdue Phodrang	18	11
Public holidays 2027 Zhemgang	18	11

Long weekends 2027

12 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
Mon 4 Jan, Tue 5 Jan, Wed 6 Jan, Thu 7 Jan	2 Jan – 10 Jan 2027	4	9	2.3	Winter Solstice, Traditional Day of Offering
Tue 9 Feb, Wed 10 Feb, Thu 11 Feb, Fri 12 Feb	6 Feb – 14 Feb 2027	4	9	2.3	Losar, Losar
Wed 24 Feb, Thu 25 Feb, Fri 26 Feb	20 Feb – 28 Feb 2027	3	9	3	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King
Mon 12 Apr, Tue 13 Apr, Wed 14 Apr, Thu 15 Apr	10 Apr – 18 Apr 2027	4	9	2.3	Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung
Mon 17 May, Tue 18 May, Wed 19 May	15 May – 20 May 2027	3	6	2	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana
Fri 21 May	20 May – 23 May 2027	1	4	4	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana
Mon 2 Aug, Tue 3 Aug, Wed 4 Aug, Thu 5 Aug	31 Jul – 8 Aug 2027	4	9	2.3	First Sermon of Lord Buddha
Mon 20 Sep, Tue 21 Sep, Wed 22 Sep, Thu 23 Sep	18 Sep – 26 Sep 2027	4	9	2.3	Blessed Rainy Day
Tue 2 Nov, Wed 3 Nov, Thu 4 Nov, Fri 5 Nov	30 Oct – 7 Nov 2027	4	9	2.3	Coronation of His Majesty the King
Mon 8 Nov, Tue 9 Nov, Wed 10 Nov	6 Nov – 11 Nov 2027	3	6	2	Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day
Fri 12 Nov	11 Nov – 14 Nov 2027	1	4	4	Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day
Mon 13 Dec, Tue 14 Dec, Wed 15 Dec, Thu 16 Dec	11 Dec – 19 Dec 2027	4	9	2.3	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 2027?

18 nationwide holidays, plus 4 that apply only in some regions. 7 of them fall on a weekend in 2027.

Which public holiday gives the best long weekend in 2027?

Lord Buddha's Parinirvana: take 1 day of leave (21 May) and you get 4 days off in a row, 20 May – 23 May 2027.

Which region has the most public holidays in 2027?

Thimphu with 22; 19 regions have the fewest with 18.

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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)

Last updated: Sep 26, 2026