Below is a list of Thailand’s public & National holidays for 2010. Businesses and government offices will be closed on National holidays while tourist attractions, clubs, and shops generally remain open. Many holidays such as Loy Kratong and Visaka Bucha day are based on the lunar calender so will change dates from year to year.
The holiday calender is located in the right sidebar year round for your convenience.
| January 1, 2010
Friday |
New Year’s Day
National Holiday |
| February 14, 2010
Sunday |
Chinese New Year
Public Holiday |
| March 1, 2010
Monday |
Makha Bucha
National Holiday |
| April 6, 2010
Tuesday |
Chakri Day
National Holiday |
| April 13, 2010
Tuesday |
Songkran Day 1
National Holiday |
| April 14, 2010
Wednesday |
Songkran Day 2
National Holiday |
| April 15, 2010
Thursday |
Songkran Day 3
National Holiday |
| May 1, 2010
Saturday |
Labor Day
National Holiday |
| May 3, 2010
Monday |
Labor Day
Business & Government Holiday |
| May 5, 2010
Wednesday |
Coronation Day
National Holiday |
| May 28, 2010
Friday |
Visakha Bucha
National Holiday |
| July 27, 2010
Tuesday |
Buddhist Lent
National Holiday |
| August 12, 2010
Thursday |
Queen’s Birthday / Mothers Day
National Holiday |
| October 23, 2010
Saturday |
Chulalongkorn Day
National Holiday |
| October 25, 2010
Monday |
Chulalongkorn Day
Business & Government Holiday |
| November 20, 2010
Saturday |
Loy Kratong
Public Holiday |
| December 5, 2010 Sunday |
King’s Birthday / Fathers Day
National Holiday |
| December 6, 2010
Monday |
King’s Birthday/Fathers Day Business & Government Holiday |
| December 10, 2010
Friday |
Constitution Day
National Holiday |
| December 31, 2010
Friday |
New Years Eve
National Holiday |
Aside from holidays Thailand hosts many different events and festivals throughout the year. For more information and dates please check out the Thailand Events Calender.
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I always thought Thailand had a lot of holidays but until you see them listed you don’t realize just how many.
I’ll be there for New Year but the Chinese New Year I won’t, I must see that one day, firecrackers spring to mind.
Songkran and Loy Krathong I have stayed in the LOS for but they both fall at the wrong times of the year for me as I like to be there for Christmas. Songkran is the bigger possibility of the two. Why doesn’t the UK have as many holidays and I believe the US has even less than we do.
.-= Martyn´s last blog ..You Oughta Drink the Water =-.
Martyn, if you work for the federal government in America you get twice as many holidays…they need the time off from screwing us.
Actually the Thai cabinet just approved a few more days off. Songkran will be adding a day this year and the Queens birthday.Mothers day will now be celebrated from August 12th-15th.
I am always running up against of Thai holidays, so keeping a list is a must.
One year, before I moved to Thailand permanently, I spent Christmas in Changmai. It was only after I arrived that I was told ‘no alcohol’. Grrrrrrrrr. It was voting time… again…
But like everything else in Thailand, laws are made to be broken. The western pubs did pull out the grog for Christmas.
.-= Catherine´s last blog ..Thai Language Thai Culture: Looking for Rhymes in all the Wrong Places =-.
You can’t get angry at holidays Cat…unless they are dry and you get caught unaware.
Talen, You are soooooo right. I was coming from a dry country (Brunei) without a drop in my luggage. Only to find that Thailand was dry too.
Escaping from Brunei, I usually did two things: Stock up on pork products and alcohol.
So going from looooong dry spell to an unexpected dry was… grrrrrrr…
And face it. Being able to eat pork just doesn’t make up for the dry.
Cat, if the pork was marinated in alcohol it might make up for it a little
Pork marinated in alcohol… [shudder]
In Brunei they did have pork, but it was so heavily salted that it was made almost useless. Rumours ran the country and there was one going around that it was a deliberate ploy by the Muslim government to discourage the eating of pork.
Do I miss having to buy dreadful pork products in a special room manned by non Muslims? No. Do I miss having to go over the border on booze runs? No. Do I miss my weird cravings for pork and alcohol? Not at all.
But the thought of pork marinated in alcohol… [shudder]
Thanks for the list,I did not know about it until now.
I notice that this year San Valentine is also the Chinese new Year!
Good day to visit Thailand…
I agree…will be a great day to be in Thailand this year.