New Year’s Day 2024, 2025 and 2026 in Thailand

Thailand observes 1 January as New Year’s Day in accordance with the Gregorian Calendar. This is in addition to the traditional Buddhist new year celebration of Songkran in mid-April.

Year	Date	Day	Holiday
2024	1 Jan	Mon	New Year's Day
	2 Jan	Tue	New Year Holiday
	31 Dec	Tue	New Year's Eve
2025	1 Jan	Wed	New Year's Day
	31 Dec	Wed	New Year's Eve
2026	1 Jan	Thu	New Year's Day
	31 Dec	Thu	New Year's Eve
2027	1 Jan	Fri	New Year's Day
	2 Jan	Sat	New Year Holiday
	31 Dec	Fri	New Year's Eve
Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates.

In Thailand, many who live in the cities or away from their birthplace will make the most of the end-of-year holiday to visit their home town and their parents and family still living there.

There are New Year’s events in the schools, corporate parties, musical concerts, fireworks displays, and “New Year countdown events” throughout Thailand. A particularly large gathering takes place in Bangkok by the Central World mall.

And even though this is not “Buddhist New Year”, many religious Thai will visit local temples to “make merit”, give money or gifts to the monks, hear religious addresses from monks, ceremonially release birds or fish, or go on New Year’s “meditation retreats”.

Previous Years

Year	Date	Day	Holiday
2023	1 Jan	Sun	New Year's Day
	2 Jan	Mon	New Year Holiday
	31 Dec	Sun	New Year's Eve
2022	1 Jan	Sat	New Year's Day
	3 Jan	Mon	New Year Holiday
	31 Dec	Sat	New Year's Eve