Traditional Burmese calendar
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Lunisolar · Solar · Lunar | |
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Runic · Mesoamerican (Long Count – Calendar Round) | |
Christian variants | |
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Rarely used | Darian calendar · Discordian calendar |
Display types and applications | Perpetual calendar · Wall calendar · Economic calendar |
The traditional Burmese calendar is a lunisolar calendar based on both the phases of the moon and the motion of the sun. Within each month of the Burmese calendar, a major festival, often Burmese Buddhist in nature, is held. Despite its religious and cultural importance, the traditional calendar has been largely abandoned, particularly in major urban areas, in favour of the Gregorian calendar. Many newspapers continue to utilise traditional month names, but purely in ceremonial fashion.
There are twelve months in the Burmese calendar:
- Tagu (တန္ခူး)
- Kason (ကဆုန္)
- Nayone (နယုန္)
- Waso (၀ါဆုိ)
- Wagaung (၀ါေခါင္)
- Tawthalin (ေတာ္သလင္း)
- Thadingyut (သီတင္းကၽြတ္)
- Tazaungmone (တန္ေဆာင္မုန္း)
- Nataw (နတ္ေတာ္)
- Pyatho (ျပာသုိ)
- Tabodwe (တပုိ႕တြဲ)
- Tabaung (တေပါင္း)
Regular year | Leap year | ||
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Tagu | 29 days | 29 days | |
Kason | 30 days | 30 days | |
Nayon | 29 days | 30 days | |
Waso | 30 days | First Waso | 30 days |
Second Waso | 30 days | ||
Wagaung | 29 days | 29 days | |
Tawthalin | 30 days | 30 days | |
Thadingyut | 29 days | 29 days | |
Tarzaungmon | 30 days | 30 days | |
Natdaw | 29 days | 29 days | |
Pyadho | 30 days | 30 days | |
Tabodwe | 29 days | 29 days | |
Tabaung | 30 days | 30 days | |
12 months | 354 days | 13 months | 385 days |