Holidays and festivals in Cambodia

1st January - New Year’s Day

7th January - Genocide Victory Commemoration Day (Celebrates the end of the Khmer Rouge regime)

Feb/March - Makha Bucha (On the full moon of the 3th lunar month according to Chinese lunar calendar)

8th March - Woman's Rights Day

14-16th April - Khmer New Year Day (Most important Cambodia holidays)

1st May - International Labor day

10th May - Royal Plowing Ceremony (Officially marks the start of the rainy season in Cambodia)

13–15th May - King Norodom Sihamoni's Birthday (Born in 1953, and is the current King)

May - Visakha Bucha Day (on the full moon of the 6th Lunar month)

18th June - Queen Mother Monineath’s Birthday

24th September - Constitution Day (Celebrating the day when King Sihanouk signed the Cambodian constitution)

22-24th October - Pchum Ben Day

29th October - King Sihamoni's Coronation Day

31st October - King Sihanouk's Birthday

9th November - National Independence Day (Celebrates Cambodia's independence from France in 1953)

19-21st November - Water Festival Ceremony (Bon Om Tuk)

10th December - Human Rights Day (Celebrates the UN's adoption of the declaration of the human rights in 1948)

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