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Bank and Public Holidays for Bhutan

Bhutan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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20 Feb 2012 (Royal Civil Service Commission of Bhutan-Thimphu) The Royal Civil Service Commission of the Government of Bhutan has announced that Friday, February 24, 2012, had been declared a one-off non-working public holiday throughout Bhutan. • 04 Jan 2012 (Royal Civil Service Commission of Bhutan-Thimphu) The Royal Civil Service Commission of the Government of Bhutan has released its official list of national and regional non-working public holidays for the calendar year 2012. • 09 Nov 2011 (Kuensel-Thimphu) The Election Commission of Bhutan has announced that a non-working public holiday would be declared on Monday, December 26, 2011, on account of the upcoming local government elections. • 20 Sep 2011 (Royal Civil Service Commission of Bhutan-Thimphu) The Royal Bhutan Government has declared a 3-day period of public holidays to coincide with next month's wedding of Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar and Jetsun Puma. • 25 Dec 2010 (The Bhutan Observer-Thimphu) Bhutan's Chief Election Commissioner, Dasho Kunzang Wangdi, has announced that the long-delayed local government (LG) elections, and the public holiday associated with them, would be on Friday, January 21, 2011. • 05 Nov 2010 (Bhutan Broadcasting System-Thimphu) The Royal Civil Service Commission of the Government of Bhutan has released its official list of public holidays for the year 2011. • 30 Mar 2010 (Kuensel-Thimphu) The police chief of Bhutan's capital, Thimphu, brigadier Kipchu Namgyal, has said that discussions were going on within the government to declare a school holiday during days of the upcoming SAARC summit. • 21 Jan 2010 (The Bhutan Observer-Thimphu) Bhutan's Chief Election Commissioner, Dasho KunzangWangdi, has announced that the local government (LG) elections, and the public holiday associated with them, would be postponed until the fall of 2010. • 13 Jan 2010 (Bhutan Broadcasting System-Thimphu) The Royal Civil Service Commission of the Government of Bhutan has released its official list of public holidays for the year 2010. • 29 Oct 2009 (Royal Civil Service Commission of Bhutan-Thimphu) The Government of Bhutan has finally, officially, confirmed the change of date of the upcoming Coronation Day of Druk Gyalpo public holiday. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Bhutan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Bhutan are regulated by article 5.22 of the "Rules and Regulations on Employment of Bhutanese Nationals in the Private Sector" and section 108 of the Labour and Employment Act of Bhutan 2007, which stipulates that employees are entitled to a minimum of 9 public holidays each year, inclusive of the birth anniversary of His Majesty the King and the National Day in addition to the normal days of rest. The specific dates of public holidays are confirmed yearly by decree. • Workweek: Government employees work five days a week, from 9am to 5pm in the summer, and 9am to 4pm in the winter. The private sector works 5 and a half to 6 days a week. • The Dasain ceremony, which symbolises the victory of good over evil, was declared a national holiday in Bhutan by His Majesty the King in 1980. • Two wonderfully named holidays, the Blessed Rainy Day (Thrue) and the day of the Meeting of Nine Evils (Ngenpa Guzom) were canceled in 2007, but then in 2009, Blessed Rainy Day was restored as a public holiday in Bhutan. • Thimphu Tshechu is a public holiday in Thimphu only. • Constitution Day: The full, official name for this public holiday is The signing and the endorsement of the Draft Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan. • Bhutan International Codes BT and BTN (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .bt (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Bhutan information and news: Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (Bhutan central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Bhutan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Bhutan), and Wikipedia (includes Bhutan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Bhutan, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Bhutan that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Hindu Calendar Public Holidays : For Bhutan, when calculating the date of bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays based on the Hindu Lunar calendar, if the date is expunged (ie. does not occur), then we use the following existing date of the Hindu Lunar calendar. Local practice concerning expunged days may vary regionally as described in many sources, including the 1998 book The Indian Calendric System by G.K. Chatterjee.

Bhutanese Calendar Public Holidays : The rules used to predict public holidays based on the Bhutanese lunar calendar in Bhutan are based on the models described in the book "Kalacakra and the Tibetan Calendar", by Edward Henning, published as part of the "Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences" series. We are grateful to Dr. Henning for his assistance in helping us understand and implement the Bhutanese calendar in Q++ Studio.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Bhutan, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Bhutan, before planning any trip to Bhutan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.