2028

Public holidays in Bhutan in 2028

Bhutan has 18 public holidays in 2028. 7 of them fall on the weekend (Saturday and Sunday). The month with the most public holidays is February (5).

All public holidays in Bhutan in 2028

• Winter Solstice (དགུན་ཉི་ལྡོག་གི་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Sunday, January 2, 2028
• Traditional Day of Offering (སྔར་སྲོལ་འབུལ་བའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Thursday, January 27, 2028
• Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King (མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Monday, February 21, 2028
• Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King (མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Tuesday, February 22, 2028
• Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King (མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Wednesday, February 23, 2028
• Losar (གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Saturday, February 26, 2028
• Losar (གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ཀྱིས་དུས་སྟོན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Sunday, February 27, 2028
• Birth Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo (མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གསུམ་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Tuesday, May 2, 2028
• Death Anniversary of Zhabdrung (མཐུ་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Thursday, May 4, 2028
• Lord Buddha's Parinirvana (སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Wednesday, June 7, 2028
• Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche (ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།) – Saturday, July 1, 2028
• First Sermon of Lord Buddha (སྟོན་པ་མཆོག་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར་བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།) – Tuesday, July 25, 2028
• Blessed Rainy Day (རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲུས་བབས་ངལ་གསོ།) – Saturday, September 23, 2028
• Dassain (estimated) (ལྷོ་མཚམས་ད་སའིན་ངལ་གསོ། (ཚོད་དཔག་གི།)) – Wednesday, September 27, 2028
• Coronation of His Majesty the King (མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསེར་ཁྲི་མངའ་གསོལ་གྱི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Wednesday, November 1, 2028
• Descending Day of Lord Buddha (རྒྱལ་བ་ལྷ་ལས་བབས་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོ།) – Thursday, November 9, 2028
• Birth Anniversary of the 4th Druk Gyalpo - Constitution Day (མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་ཆེན་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Saturday, November 11, 2028
• National Day (རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དུས་ཆེན་གྱི་ངལ་གསོལ།) – Sunday, December 17, 2028

Long weekends and bridge days in Bhutan in 2028

The weekend in Bhutan: Saturday and Sunday. Bhutan has 1 long weekend in 2028: three days or more off in a row thanks to a public holiday.

• Sat, Feb 19 – Wed, Feb 23 – 5 days off (Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King)

Bridge days: a few days off, a long break

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

2028 at a glance

• 2028 has 366 days.
• 2028 starts on a Saturday and ends on a Sunday.
• 2028 is a leap year: February has 29 days.
• 2028 has the same calendar as 2000 and 2056.
• Public holidays in Bhutan: 18

Monthly calendars for 2028

• January 2028 – 2 holidays
• February 2028 – 5 holidays
• March 2028 – 0 holidays
• April 2028 – 0 holidays
• May 2028 – 2 holidays
• June 2028 – 1 holiday
• July 2028 – 2 holidays
• August 2028 – 0 holidays
• September 2028 – 2 holidays
• October 2028 – 0 holidays
• November 2028 – 3 holidays
• December 2028 – 1 holiday

More calendars

• ‹ 2027 Calendar
• 2029 Calendar ›

Public holidays 2028 in nearby countries

• India – 19 holidays
• Iran – 27 holidays
• Maldives – 18 holidays
• Nepal – 35 holidays
• Pakistan – 16 holidays
• Sri Lanka