Public holidays in Bhutan 2028

There are 18 nationwide public holidays in 2028. 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 2028

Date	Weekday	Holiday	Local name	Applies in
2 Jan 2028	Sunday	Winter Solstice	དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་གི་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
27 Jan 2028	Thursday	Traditional Day of Offering	སྔར་སྲོལ་འབུལ་བའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
21 Feb 2028	Monday	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
22 Feb 2028	Tuesday	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
23 Feb 2028	Wednesday	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
26 Feb 2028	Saturday	Losar	གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
27 Feb 2028	Sunday	Losar	གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
2 May 2028	Tuesday	Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo	མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
4 May 2028	Thursday	Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung	མཐུ་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
7 Jun 2028	Wednesday	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana	སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
1 Jul 2028	Saturday	Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche	ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
25 Jul 2028	Tuesday	First Sermon of Lord Buddha	སྟོན་པ་མཆོག་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར་བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
23 Sep 2028	Saturday	Blessed Rainy Day	རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
24 Sep 2028	Sunday	Thimphu Drubchoe	ཐིམ་རྫོང་ལྷ་མོའི་དངོས་འཆམ་མཇལ་རྒྱུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
27 Sep 2028	Wednesday	Dassain (estimated)	ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། (ཚོད་དཔག་གི།)	nationwide
28 Sep 2028	Thursday	Thimphu Tshechu	ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
29 Sep 2028	Friday	Thimphu Tshechu	ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
30 Sep 2028	Saturday	Thimphu Tshechu	ཐིམ་ཕུ་ཚེས་བཅུའི་ངལ་གསོ།	Thimphu
1 Nov 2028	Wednesday	Coronation of His Majesty the King	མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསེར་ཁྲི་མངའ་གསོལ་གྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
9 Nov 2028	Thursday	Descending Day of Lord Buddha	རྒྱལ་བ་ལྷ་ལས་བབས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།	nationwide
11 Nov 2028	Saturday	Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day	མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།	nationwide
17 Dec 2028	Sunday	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 2028 Bumthang	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Chhukha	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Dagana	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Gasa	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Haa	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Lhuentse	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Monggar	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Paro	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Pema Gatshel	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Punakha	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Samdrup Jongkhar	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Samtse	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Sarpang	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Thimphu	22	13
Public holidays 2028 Trashi Yangtse	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Trashigang	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Trongsa	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Tsirang	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Wangdue Phodrang	18	11
Public holidays 2028 Zhemgang	18	11

Long weekends 2028

16 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 24 Jan, Tue 25 Jan, Wed 26 Jan	22 Jan – 27 Jan 2028	3	6	2	Traditional Day of Offering
Fri 28 Jan	27 Jan – 30 Jan 2028	1	4	4	Traditional Day of Offering
Thu 24 Feb, Fri 25 Feb	19 Feb – 27 Feb 2028	2	9	4.5	Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Losar, Losar
Mon 1 May	29 Apr – 2 May 2028	1	4	4	Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo
Wed 3 May	2 May – 4 May 2028	1	3	3	Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo, Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung
Fri 5 May	4 May – 7 May 2028	1	4	4	Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung
Mon 5 Jun, Tue 6 Jun	3 Jun – 7 Jun 2028	2	5	2.5	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana
Thu 8 Jun, Fri 9 Jun	7 Jun – 11 Jun 2028	2	5	2.5	Lord Buddha's Parinirvana
Mon 24 Jul	22 Jul – 25 Jul 2028	1	4	4	First Sermon of Lord Buddha
Wed 26 Jul, Thu 27 Jul, Fri 28 Jul	25 Jul – 30 Jul 2028	3	6	2	First Sermon of Lord Buddha
Mon 25 Sep, Tue 26 Sep	23 Sep – 27 Sep 2028	2	5	2.5	Blessed Rainy Day, Dassain (estimated)
Thu 28 Sep, Fri 29 Sep	27 Sep – 1 Oct 2028	2	5	2.5	Dassain (estimated)
Mon 30 Oct, Tue 31 Oct	28 Oct – 1 Nov 2028	2	5	2.5	Coronation of His Majesty the King
Thu 2 Nov, Fri 3 Nov	1 Nov – 5 Nov 2028	2	5	2.5	Coronation of His Majesty the King
Mon 6 Nov, Tue 7 Nov, Wed 8 Nov	4 Nov – 9 Nov 2028	3	6	2	Descending Day of Lord Buddha
Fri 10 Nov	9 Nov – 12 Nov 2028	1	4	4	Descending Day of Lord Buddha, Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution 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 2028?

18 nationwide holidays, plus 4 that apply only in some regions. 7 of them fall on a weekend in 2028.

Which public holiday gives the best long weekend in 2028?

Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, Losar: take 2 days of leave (24 Feb, 25 Feb) and you get 9 days off in a row, 19 Feb – 27 Feb 2028.

Which region has the most public holidays in 2028?

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