Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
CAMBODIA
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day  
January 7 Commemoration of the fall of the Khmer Rouge*
February 8 Meak Bochea Day
March 8 Women's Day
April 15 Cambodian New Year
May 1 Labour Day
May 19 Visaka Buja Day (Birth of Buddha)
May * Royal Ploughing Day Ceremony
May 13 - 15 King Sihamoni's Birthday
June 1 International Children's Day
June 18 Former Queen's Birthday
September 24 Constitution and Coronation Day
September / October * Pchum Ben Day
October 23 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia
October 31 Former King Sihanouk's Birthday
November * Water Festival
November 9 Independence Day
December 10 UN Human Rights Day

*Probably no longer valid since the Paris Agreements.

**Buddhist

* Date Not Confirmed

#Only this one is listed as a holiday by the embassy in Japan

¤ celebrated only by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese