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Thai New Year [1]: 802 [2]: 127 or Songkran [1]: 802 (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.kāːn sǒŋ.krāːn]), also known as Songkran Festival, [3] Songkran Splendours, [2]: 127 is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April.
Theravāda New Year, also known as Songkran, is the water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Theravada Buddhist calendar widely celebrated across South and Southeast Asia in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam, and Xishuangbanna, China [2] [3] begins on 13 April of the year.
13 April of the solar calendar occasions the beginning of the traditional Thai New Year (Songkran) and is the day that a year assumes the name of the next animal in the twelve-year animal cycle; [1] Thai Chinese communities may observe the name-change earlier in accordance with the Chinese New Year.
People in Thailand rang in the new year with a giant water fight as part of the Songkran festival on Thursday, 13 April. Thousands of locals and tourists armed with toy water guns will spray water ...
Following is a list of events and scheduled events in the year 2024 in Thailand. ... 1–2 January – New Year's Day; 10 February – Chinese New Year; 24, ...
Following is a list of events and scheduled events in the year 2025 in Thailand. The year 2025 is reckoned as the year 2568 in Buddhist Era, ... New Year's Day; 29 ...
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Participants hit a huge bell to welcome the 2025 New Year's Day during celebrations post-midnight at the Bosingak pavilion in central Seoul on Jan. 1, 2025. Hong Kong