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Bank and Public Holidays for Thailand

Thailand bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for the first 3 months of 2013, 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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24 Feb 2012 (The Stock Exchange of Thailand-Bangkok) The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has announced that Monday, April 9, 2012, had also been declared a one-off non-working financial sector holiday. • 07 Feb 2012 (The Bank of Thailand-Bangkok) The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has announced that Monday, April 9, 2012, had been declared a one-off bank holiday for all banks and financial institutes throughout Thailand. • 31 Jan 2012 (Thai News Agency-Bangkok) Thailand’s Cabinet has declared Monday, April 9, 2012, as an additional one-off non-working public holiday in Thailand, on account of that day's royal cremation of Her Royal Highness Princess Bejraratana Rajasuda at Sanam Luang. • 18 Jan 2012 (The Bank of Thailand-Bangkok) The Bank of Thailand has announced that Monday, January 23, 2012, would also be a bank holiday in Thailand's southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Satun and Yala. • 11 Jan 2012 (Thai News Agency-Bangkok) Thai Government Spokeswoman, Thitima Chaisang, has announced that Thailand’s Government Cabinet had agreed to declare Monday, January 23, 2012, the date of the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, as a regional public holiday in Southern Thailand. • 13 Dec 2011 (Thai News Agency-Bangkok) Thai Government Spokeswoman, Thitima Chaisang, has announced that, earlier today, Thailand’s Cabinet had declared the upcoming year-end and new year public holidays from Saturday, December 31, 2011, until Tuesday, January 3, 2012, inclusively. • 08 Dec 2011 (Thai News Agency-Bangkok) The government of Thailand hasannounced the date of the 2012 Royal Ploughing Ceremony non-working public holiday. • 31 Oct 2011 (Thai News Agency-Bangkok) At an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet of the government of Thailand, last night, the cabinet rejected a proposal to extend the duration of the current flood relief regional public holidays • 25 Oct 2011 (Thai News Agency-Bangkok) Earlier today, the Cabinet of the government of Thailand approved the suggested declaration of 5-day public holidays, from Thursday to Monday October 27 to 31, 2011, to allow Bangkok residents to handle the flood situation during the upcoming weekend high tide period. • 24 Oct 2011 (Bangkok Metropolitan Administration-Bangkok) The Governor of Bangkok, Thailand's capital territory, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, has announced that the period from October 28-31, 2011, could soon be declared as non-working public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Thailand public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekend Public Holidays: Public holidays falling on a Saturday or Sunday are observed on the Monday following. • Clubs and other places of indulgence are closed on Buddhist Holidays and Royal Holidays like the King/Queen's birthday. • Thai Lunar Calendar: The public holidays of Mahka Bucha, Visakha Bucha, Asanha Bucha, and Khao Phansa are based on the Thai lunar calendar. • Songkran: In 1948, the government officially fixed the 13th of April as Songkran Day and officially made it a public holiday. In 1989, the government with General Chatichai Choonhavan as the Prime Minister proclaimed the 12th of April, the 13th of April, and the 14th of April public holidays in order to allow people to return to their hometowns. In 1997, the government with General Chawalit Yongchaiyuth as the Prime Minister changed the dates of holidays on the occasion of Songkran festival to be the 13th of April, the 14th of April and the 15th of April in accordance with the days traditionally observed since time immemorial. • Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day (usually during the 2nd week of May) is supposed to be a government holiday, however, no reliable source has been found to confirm how it may be predicted. This is an ancient Brahman ceremony, held under Royal patronage in Bangkok, which celebrates the beginning of the rice planting season. The day is selected by Brahmin Priests according to their astrological calendars. • For commercial banks in the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Satun, an extra bank holiday is given for Eidilfitri Day (End of Ramadan Day) as announced by the Sheikhul Islam Office, if the day does not coincide with the above mentioned holidays or Saturday and Sunday. • Thailand International Codes TH and THA (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .th (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Thailand information and news: Bank of Thailand (Thailand central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Thailand maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Thailand), and Wikipedia (includes Thailand commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Thailand, 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 Thailand 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.

South-East Asian Calendar Public Holidays : The rules used to predict South-East Asian lunar public holidays in Thailand are based on the models described in the book "The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia", by J.C. Eade, published as part of the "Handbuch der Orientalistik" series (with help by Pr. J.C. Eade and Dr. Burghart Hoffrichter), and on the classical 1909 book "The Burmese and Arakanese Calendars" by A.M.B. Irwin, as well as the 1997 articles in the Indian Journal of History of Science by G.K. Chatterjee.

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 2013 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Thailand, 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 Thailand, before planning any trip to Thailand. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.