Cambodia Holidays

About this tool

Cambodia sets its public holidays each year by sub-decree, and this page lists the days for 2025, 2026 and 2027 in one table: the Khmer name, the English name and the date, in calendar order, with a year selector and a print or PDF export. It is built for the people who have to act on the dates rather than just read them — an HR officer checking which days in a payroll month are paid holidays, a factory planner counting the days a line will stop in the last quarter, a school office drafting a term around Pchum Ben, a family booking a bus home for Khmer New Year, or a visitor checking whether the banks will be open. It shows the dates the dataset holds for those three years and nothing else. It is not a live feed, it does not move a holiday that lands on a Saturday or Sunday, it will not show a one-off day declared after the list was compiled, and it covers no year after 2027. The sub-decree remains the authority, and where this list and the sub-decree disagree the questions below say exactly where.

How it works

`getHolidaysForYear` in `cambodia-holidays-data.ts` builds the rows in two passes. Twelve fixed-date entries come from the `FIXED_HOLIDAYS` array — 1 January, 7 January, 8 March, 1 May, 14 May, 1 June, 18 June, 24 September, 15 October, 29 October, 9 November and 10 December — and are stamped with the selected year. The rest come from `LUNAR_DATES_BY_YEAR`, which holds the per-year dates for Chinese New Year, Meak Bochea, Khmer New Year, Pchum Ben and the Water Festival, because those move. Every row is sorted by an `order` number of month × 100 + day, so the table reads in calendar order for the year you pick. A multi-day festival is stored as one row with a range such as "10–12 October", and `parseDateEnToDays` expands that range into individual days for the calendar, countdown and working-day tools. `SUPPORTED_YEARS` is `[2025, 2026, 2027]`, and `getDefaultYear` falls back to 2025 when the current year is outside that window. Nothing is fetched, so there is no loading state and no upstream failure to handle; the only controls are the year selector, the print button and the PDF button, and the PDF is built in your browser from the same rows you see.

Use cases

• An HR officer checking which days in a payroll month are paid public holidays before the salary file is run
• A family booking a bus to Battambang and wanting to travel before the Khmer New Year crush rather than during it
• A school office drafting the academic year around the Pchum Ben break and the Water Festival
• A visitor checking whether the banks, ministries and embassies will be open in a given week
• A factory planner counting the days a production line will stop between October and December
• A student or journalist checking the official Khmer and English name of a holiday before publishing it
• An exporter confirming the days a customs office is closed before quoting a delivery date to a buyer

Frequently asked questions

• Is this the official public holiday calendar?

  No. It is inkhmer.com's own dataset for 2025, 2026 and 2027, compiled from the annual sub-decrees and not read from any government feed. The authority is the sub-decree for the year: No. 204/24 OrNKr/BK of 29 August 2024 for 2025, No. 167 OrNKr/BK of 5 September 2025 for 2026, and No. 198 ANKr.BK of 16 September 2026 for 2027. Where the two disagree, the sub-decree wins and this list is the one that is wrong.

• Which entries here are not in the sub-decrees?

  Four kinds of day, in all three years: Chinese New Year's three days, Meak Bochea, International Children's Day on 1 June, and International Human Rights Day on 10 December. The 2019 reduction of the official calendar removed Meak Bochea, International Children's Day and International Human Rights Day, and none of the three sub-decrees above lists Chinese New Year. They stay in this table because many businesses still close for them.

• Which official days are missing from this table?

  Three. Visak Bochea is listed on 11 May 2025, on 1 May 2026 where it coincides with International Labour Day, and on 20 May 2027. The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is listed on 15 May 2025, 5 May 2026 and 24 May 2027. Peace Day on 29 December appears in all three sub-decrees and in none of these rows. Treat the sub-decree as the list for any payroll or filing decision.

• When is Khmer New Year in 2026 and 2027?

  14, 15 and 16 April in both years. The three days are Moha Sangkranta, Vanabot and Tngai Laeung Saka, and each of the two sub-decrees grants all three as public holidays. The table holds the published dates rather than calculating them, which is why the three days repeat identically across 2025, 2026 and 2027 while Pchum Ben and the Water Festival do not.

• Why do Pchum Ben and the Water Festival move every year?

  Both are lunar festivals rather than fixed calendar dates. Pchum Ben is tied to the fifteenth waning day of the tenth Khmer lunar month, and the Water Festival falls in the eleventh, so their Gregorian dates drift by a few weeks from year to year. This table stores the published dates per year: 21–23 September and 4–6 November in 2025, 10–12 October and 23–25 November in 2026, and 29 September – 1 October and 12–14 November in 2027.

• What happens when a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday?

  Nothing is moved. The sub-decree lists the date and does not shift it to the following Monday, and this table does not either. In 2026, 8 March falls on a Sunday and is still shown as one day; in 2027, 1 May falls on a Saturday and is also a single day. If your employer gives a replacement day off for a weekend holiday, that is company policy on top of the calendar, not a rule the calendar applies.

• Does the list cover 2028 or later?

  No. The dataset holds 2025, 2026 and 2027, and the year selector stops at 2027. A sub-decree is normally signed in the September before the year it covers, and the table is extended by hand once the new text is published. Until a year is added, the Cambodia working days calculator also stops counting holidays for it and reports the year as unsupported.

• Can I print the list or save it as a PDF?

  Yes. The print button opens the browser print dialog and the PDF button builds a one-page file for the selected year from the same rows, so the printed sheet and the screen cannot disagree. Both carry the year in the heading. The PDF is generated in your browser rather than on a server, which is why it still works after the page has loaded with no connection.

Data and accuracy

Content last reviewed 21 October 2026