Public holidays in Myanmar 2027
There are 30 public holidays in 2027. 20 of them fall on a working day.
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All 30 public holidays in Myanmar 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Local name | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | New Year's Day | နိုင်ငံတကာနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ | ||
| Monday | Independence Day | လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့ | ||
| Friday | Karen New Year | ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ | ||
| Saturday | Chinese New Year | တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ | ||
| Friday | Union Day | ပြည်ထောင်စုနေ့ | ||
| Tuesday | Peasants' Day | တောင်သူလယ်သမားနေ့ | ||
| Monday | Full Moon Day of Tabaung | တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ | ||
| Saturday | Armed Forces Day | တပ်မတော်နေ့ | ||
| Tuesday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Wednesday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Thursday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Friday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Saturday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Sunday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Monday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Tuesday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Wednesday | Myanmar New Year | မြန်မာနှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Saturday | May Day | မေဒေးနေ့ | ||
| Monday | Eid al-Adha (estimated) | အီဒုလ်အဿွဟာနေ့ (ခန့်မှန်း) | ||
| Thursday | Full Moon Day of Kason | ကဆုန်လပြည့်နေ့ | ||
| Sunday | Full Moon Day of Waso | ဝါဆိုလပြည့်နေ့ | ||
| Monday | Martyrs' Day | အာဇာနည်နေ့ | ||
| Thursday | Thadingyut Holidays | သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Friday | Thadingyut Holidays | သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Saturday | Thadingyut Holidays | သီတင်းကျွတ်ပိတ်ရက်များ | ||
| Saturday | Diwali | ဒီပါဝလီနေ့ | ||
| Saturday | Full Moon Day of Tazaungmon | တန်ဆောင်တိုင်လပြည့်နေ့ | ||
| Tuesday | National Day | အမျိုးသားနေ့ | ||
| Saturday | Christmas Day | ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ | ||
| Tuesday | Karen New Year | ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ |
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.
Long weekends 2027
15 times a public holiday lies close to a weekend – with a little leave it becomes a long weekend:
| Take leave | Off | Days of leave | Days off | Ratio | Occasion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 5 Jan, Wed 6 Jan, Thu 7 Jan | 1 Jan – 10 Jan 2027 | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | New Year's Day, Independence Day, Karen New Year |
| Mon 8 Feb, Tue 9 Feb, Wed 10 Feb, Thu 11 Feb | 6 Feb – 14 Feb 2027 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Chinese New Year, Union Day |
| Mon 1 Mar | 27 Feb – 2 Mar 2027 | 1 | 4 | 4 | Peasants' Day |
| Wed 3 Mar, Thu 4 Mar, Fri 5 Mar | 2 Mar – 7 Mar 2027 | 3 | 6 | 2 | Peasants' Day |
| Tue 23 Mar, Wed 24 Mar, Thu 25 Mar, Fri 26 Mar | 20 Mar – 28 Mar 2027 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Full Moon Day of Tabaung, Armed Forces Day |
| Mon 12 Apr | 10 Apr – 21 Apr 2027 | 1 | 12 | 12 | Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year |
| Thu 22 Apr, Fri 23 Apr | 13 Apr – 25 Apr 2027 | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year, Myanmar New Year |
| Tue 18 May, Wed 19 May | 15 May – 20 May 2027 | 2 | 6 | 3 | Eid al-Adha (estimated), Full Moon Day of Kason |
| Fri 21 May | 20 May – 23 May 2027 | 1 | 4 | 4 | Full Moon Day of Kason |
| Tue 20 Jul, Wed 21 Jul, Thu 22 Jul, Fri 23 Jul | 17 Jul – 25 Jul 2027 | 4 | 9 | 2.3 | Full Moon Day of Waso, Martyrs' Day |
| Mon 11 Oct, Tue 12 Oct, Wed 13 Oct | 9 Oct – 17 Oct 2027 | 3 | 9 | 3 | Thadingyut Holidays, Thadingyut Holidays, Thadingyut Holidays |
| Mon 22 Nov | 20 Nov – 23 Nov 2027 | 1 | 4 | 4 | National Day |
| Wed 24 Nov, Thu 25 Nov, Fri 26 Nov | 23 Nov – 28 Nov 2027 | 3 | 6 | 2 | National Day |
| Mon 27 Dec | 25 Dec – 28 Dec 2027 | 1 | 4 | 4 | Christmas Day, Karen New Year |
| Wed 29 Dec, Thu 30 Dec, Fri 31 Dec | 28 Dec – 2 Jan 2028 | 3 | 6 | 2 | Karen New Year, New Year's 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 Myanmar have in 2027?
30 public holidays. 10 of them fall on a weekend in 2027.
Which public holiday gives the best long weekend in 2027?
Myanmar New Year: take 1 day of leave (12 Apr) and you get 12 days off in a row, 10 Apr – 21 Apr 2027.
Sources
- Data: python-holidays 0.105 (MIT licence), country code MM (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.mm) (retrieved Sep 28, 2026)
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Other years
- Public holidays 2026
- Public holidays 2027
- Public holidays 2028