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2025 Holidays - Myanmar

Name: Christmas Holiday
Start: 2025-12-28
End: 2025-12-28
Location: Myanmar

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Name	Weekday	Date	Type	Subdivisions
New Year's Day	Wednesday	Jan. 1, 2025	National	All
Local name: နယူးယားနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ The final day of the Gregorian year (December 31), often celebrated with midnight countdowns and the start of January 1.
Independence Day	Saturday	Jan. 4, 2025	National	All
Local name: လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့ Commemorating Myanmar’s independence from British rule on January 4, 1948.
Chinese New Year	Wednesday	Jan. 29, 2025	National	All
Local name: တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူး Celebrating the start of the Chinese lunar calendar, observed by Chinese communities.
Union Day	Wednesday	Feb. 12, 2025	National	All
Local name: ပြည်ထောင်စုနေ့ Celebrating the Panglong Agreement (1947) that led to the formation of the Union of Myanmar on February 12.
Peasants' Day	Sunday	March 2, 2025	National	All
Local name: လယ်သမားနေ့ Recognizing the contributions of farmers to the nation, observed on March 2.
Full Moon Day of Tabaung Holiday	Wednesday	March 12, 2025	National	All
Local name: တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist observance around February/March, marking significant religious activities in the month of Tabaung.
Full Moon Day of Tabaung	Thursday	March 13, 2025	National	All
Local name: တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist observance around February/March, marking significant religious activities in the month of Tabaung.
Full Moon Day of Tabaung Holiday	Friday	March 14, 2025	National	All
Local name: တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist observance around February/March, marking significant religious activities in the month of Tabaung.
Full Moon Day of Tabaung Holiday	Saturday	March 15, 2025	National	All
Local name: တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist observance around February/March, marking significant religious activities in the month of Tabaung.
Full Moon Day of Tabaung Holiday	Sunday	March 16, 2025	National	All
Local name: တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist observance around February/March, marking significant religious activities in the month of Tabaung.
Armed Forces Day	Thursday	March 27, 2025	National	All
Local name: တပ်မတော်နေ့ Honoring the Myanmar Armed Forces and marking the start of resistance against Japanese occupation on March 27, 1945.
Thingyan	Sunday	April 13, 2025	National	All
Local name: သင်္ကြန် Myanmar’s traditional Water Festival (April 13–16), celebrating the Burmese New Year with ceremonial water splashing.
Thingyan Holiday	Monday	April 14, 2025	National	All
Local name: သင်္ကြန် Myanmar’s traditional Water Festival (April 13–16), celebrating the Burmese New Year with ceremonial water splashing.
Thingyan Holiday	Tuesday	April 15, 2025	National	All
Local name: သင်္ကြန် Myanmar’s traditional Water Festival (April 13–16), celebrating the Burmese New Year with ceremonial water splashing.
Thingyan Holiday	Wednesday	April 16, 2025	National	All
Local name: သင်္ကြန် Myanmar’s traditional Water Festival (April 13–16), celebrating the Burmese New Year with ceremonial water splashing.
Burmese New Year	Thursday	April 17, 2025	National	All
Local name: နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Marking the start of the traditional Myanmar calendar right after Thingyan.
Burmese New Year Holiday	Friday	April 18, 2025	National	All
Local name: နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Marking the start of the traditional Myanmar calendar right after Thingyan.
Burmese New Year Holiday	Saturday	April 19, 2025	National	All
Local name: နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Marking the start of the traditional Myanmar calendar right after Thingyan.
Burmese New Year Holiday	Sunday	April 20, 2025	National	All
Local name: နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Marking the start of the traditional Myanmar calendar right after Thingyan.
Burmese New Year Holiday	Monday	April 21, 2025	National	All
Local name: နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ Marking the start of the traditional Myanmar calendar right after Thingyan.
Labour Day	Thursday	May 1, 2025	National	All
Local name: အလုပ်သမားနေ့ Recognizing workers’ achievements, observed on May 1.
Full Moon Day of Kasong	Sunday	May 11, 2025	National	All
Local name: ကဆုန်လပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist holy day in the month of Kason (around May), celebrating Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing.
Eid ul-Adha Day *	Saturday	June 7, 2025	National	All
Local name: အီဒ်အလဟ Commemorating Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice, observed during the Hajj period.
Full Moon Day of Waso *	Wednesday	July 9, 2025	National	All
Local name: ဝါဆိုလပြည့်နေ့ Beginning of Buddhist Lent (Vassa), when monks typically remain in one monastery for the rainy season.
Martyr's Day	Saturday	July 19, 2025	National	All
Local name: သူရဲကောင်းဗဟိုနေ့ Honoring General Aung San and others assassinated on July 19, 1947.
Full Moon Day of Thadingyut Holiday *	Sunday	Oct. 5, 2025	National	All
Local name: သီတင်းကျွတ်လပြည့်နေ့ The end of Buddhist Lent, celebrated with the Festival of Lights welcoming Buddha’s descent from heaven.
Full Moon Day of Thadingyut *	Monday	Oct. 6, 2025	National	All
Local name: သီတင်းကျွတ်လပြည့်နေ့ The end of Buddhist Lent, celebrated with the Festival of Lights welcoming Buddha’s descent from heaven.
Full Moon Day of Thadingyut Holiday *	Tuesday	Oct. 7, 2025	National	All
Local name: သီတင်းကျွတ်လပြည့်နေ့ The end of Buddhist Lent, celebrated with the Festival of Lights welcoming Buddha’s descent from heaven.
Deepavali *	Tuesday	Oct. 21, 2025	National	All
Local name: ဒီပါဝလီ A Hindu festival of lights, symbolizing the victory of light over darkness.
Full Moon of Tazaungmone Holiday	Saturday	Nov. 1, 2025	National	All
Local name: တန်ဆောင်မှုန်လပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist day (around November) marked by robe-weaving ceremonies (Kathina) and light offerings.
Full Moon of Tazaungmone Holiday	Sunday	Nov. 2, 2025	National	All
Local name: တန်ဆောင်မှုန်လပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist day (around November) marked by robe-weaving ceremonies (Kathina) and light offerings.
Full Moon of Tazaungmone Holiday	Monday	Nov. 3, 2025	National	All
Local name: တန်ဆောင်မှုန်လပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist day (around November) marked by robe-weaving ceremonies (Kathina) and light offerings.
Full Moon of Tazaungmone	Tuesday	Nov. 4, 2025	National	All
Local name: တန်ဆောင်မှုန်လပြည့်နေ့ A Buddhist day (around November) marked by robe-weaving ceremonies (Kathina) and light offerings.
National Day *	Friday	Nov. 14, 2025	National	All
Local name: အမျိုးသားနေ့ Commemorating the 1920 student strike against British rule, seen as the rise of national consciousness.
Karen New Year *	Friday	Dec. 19, 2025	National	All
Local name: ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ (Kayin Hnit Thit Ku Né) Celebrated by the Karen (Kayin) ethnic community to mark the beginning of their traditional calendar. Festivities typically include traditional music, dances, and communal gatherings to honor cultural heritage and strengthen community bonds.
Christmas Day	Thursday	Dec. 25, 2025	National	All
Local name: ခရစ်စမတ်နေ့ A Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25.
Christmas Holiday	Friday	Dec. 26, 2025	National	All
Local name: ခရစ်စမတ်နေ့ A Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25.
Christmas Holiday	Saturday	Dec. 27, 2025	National	All
Local name: ခရစ်စမတ်နေ့ A Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25.
Christmas Holiday	Sunday	Dec. 28, 2025	National	All
Local name: ခရစ်စမတ်နေ့ A Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25.

* Estimated holiday dates

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Myanmar workweek and weekend

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Myanmar Public Holiday Observance Rules

1. Entitlement to Public Holidays

- Myanmar recognizes several public holidays each year, including Independence Day, Union Day, Peasants' Day, and the Full Moon Day of Tabaung. Source

2. Working on Public Holidays

- If an employee is required to work on a public holiday, they are typically entitled to additional compensation or compensatory time off, as stipulated by the labor laws and any applicable collective agreements.

3. Holidays Falling on Weekends

- When a public holiday falls on a weekend, the observance rules are determined by the government. In some cases, the day off may be moved to the following Monday, but this is not guaranteed and depends on annual governmental decisions. Source

4. Additional Notes

- Employers and employees should refer to Myanmar's labor laws and any applicable collective agreements for specific provisions related to public holidays and work schedules.

2025 Holidays - Myanmar

Myanmar workweek and weekend

Myanmar Public Holiday Observance Rules

1. Entitlement to Public Holidays

2. Working on Public Holidays

3. Holidays Falling on Weekends

4. Additional Notes

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2025 Holidays - Myanmar

Myanmar workweek and weekend

Myanmar Public Holiday Observance Rules

1. Entitlement to Public Holidays

2. Working on Public Holidays

3. Holidays Falling on Weekends

4. Additional Notes

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