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Bank and Public Holidays for Mongolia

Mongolia 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 Dec 2011 (Montsame Agency-Ulaanbaatar) The Cabinet of the Government of Mongolia has approved the declaration of a one-off non-working public holiday in Mongolia, on Thursday, December 29, 2011. • 22 Jan 2010 (The UB Post-Ulaanbaatar) The Government of Mongolia has announced that the official dates for this year's, "Year of the Tiger", Tsagaan Sar public holidays will be February 14, 15, and 16, 2010. • 01 Jan 2010 (Montsame Agency-Ulaanbaatar) Just before the Western New Year recess, Mongolia's Parliament discussed a renewed revised draft law on the national holidays of Naadam. • 07 Apr 2009 (Montsame Agency-Ulaanbaatar) Mongolia's Parliamentary Speaker, D. Demberel, has announced the 65th ordinance on establishing the order of issues to be discussed at the regular spring session of parliament in 2009, which features, in 17th position, the Draft amendment to the law on national holidays and remarkable days. • 22 Feb 2009 (Montsame Agency-Ulaanbaatar) All border checkpoints between Mongolia and China will be closed, starting on February 25, for 2 to 3 days, to coincide with the upcoming Tsagaan Sar 3-day public holidays. • 20 Jan 2009 (Montsame Agency-Ulaanbaatar) Mongolia's Parliament has approved a legislative agenda for the spring of 2009, which includes "Draft amendments to the law on national holidays and remarkable days". • 27 Nov 2008 (The UB Post-Ulaanbaatar) Mongolia's Parliament has opened a discussion on a draft amendment to Local Election Law, proposing that future re-casting of ballots occur on a weekday that that date be declared a public holiday. • 06 Jun 2008 (Montsame) One of the Deputy Premiers of Mongolia, and Head of the ''Naadam'' national holiday organizing committee, has announced that the Naadam national day public holiday would be celebrated from July 11-13, as usual, in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, but that the rural areas who will be celebrating their Aimags (province) foundation jubilees at that time, "will celebrate the national Holiday a bit earlier, July 9-10". • 30 Jan 2008 (Newswire-Ulaanbaatar) Mongolia's general public has recently been confused as to whether Mongolia should celebrate the new year public holiday of Tsagaan Sar (White Moon or White Month) on February 7 or 8, 2008. • 21 Jun 2007 (China Post-Ulan Bator) The Government of Mongolia announced that Mongolia will ban all sports and entertainment events in a national day of mourning for 15 people killed this week in a helicopter crash. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Mongolia 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 Mongolia are regulated by Articles 32-33-34 of the Labour Code of Mongolia, which came into force on July 1st, 1999. It was later amended to add International Women's Day to the list of public holidays in Mongolia. • Week-end Public Holidays: The Labour Code of Mongolia makes no special provisions for the occurrence of public holidays on a week-end, and the Mongol Bank (Mongolia's Central Bank) lists all public holidays as remaining on their set days. However, some government services are known to move Saturday holidays to Fridays and Sunday holidays to Mondays. Our local sources also indicate that when one of the major 3-day holidays (Lunar New Year and Naadam) falls on a weekend, the government may, at its discretion, declare an additional day off for everyone. • Tsargaan Sar: Ever since Mongolia became independent in the early 1990s, there has been an ongoing debate regarding the date when the Tsargaan Sar public holiday should be observed. In 2002, the Government of Mongolia co-organized a project with the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery to settle down the issue of date confusions. The project’s outcome, in which many scientists, astronomers, religious figures, lamas and astrologists contributed, was a calendar made based on Togs Buyant astrology that defined lunar days from the year 1027 until 2106. • Mongolia International Codes MN and MNG (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .mn (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Mongolia information and news: Bank of Mongolia (Mongolia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Mongolia maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Mongolia), and Wikipedia (includes Mongolia commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Mongolia, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Mongolia, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Mongolia. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Mongolia 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.

Mongolian Calendar Public Holidays : The rules used to predict public holidays based on the Mongolian lunar calendar in Mongolia are based on the Tögs Buyant (Very Virtuous) calendar as revised in 2002 by a joint endevour between the Government of Mongolia and the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery. We are grateful to Olli Salmi for his assistance in implementing the Tögs Buyant Mongolian lunar 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 Mongolia, 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 Mongolia, before planning any trip to Mongolia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.