Thailand songkran festival 2019

Traditional Thai New Year's holiday

For the observance elsewhere, see South and Southeast Asian solar New Year.

Thai New Year^{[1]: 802 [2]: 127} or Songkran^[1]: 802 (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced[tʰêːt.sā.kāːnsǒŋ.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. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to seven days, 9–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday.^[4] In 2019, the holiday was observed 9–16 April as 13 April fell on a Saturday.^[5] In 2024, Songkran was extended to almost the entire month, starting on the first of April, and ending on the twenty-first, departing from the traditional 3-day format 2019 Chiang Mai (Thailand) Songkran Festival (Water Festival ...

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