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The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar ( Anno Domini ), so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567. The lunar calendar contains 12 or 13 months in a year, with 15 waxing moon and 14 or 15 waning moon days in a month, amounting to years of 354, 355 or 384 days.
Thailand uses the Thai solar calendar as the official calendar, in which the calendar's epochal date was the year in which the Buddha attained parinibbāna. This places the current year at 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. The year 2024 AD is indicated as 2567 BE in Thailand.
The Thai lunar calendar ( Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ, RTGS : patithin chanthrakhati, pronounced [pà.tì.tʰīn t͡ɕān.tʰrá (ʔ).kʰā.tìʔ], literally, Specific days according to lunar norms ), or Tai calendar, is a lunisolar Buddhist calendar. It is used for calculating lunar-regulated holy days.
A panel from a typical calendar, showing the month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547). Lunar dates are also provided. The Thai solar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย, RTGS: patithin suriyakhati thai, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal ...
The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in Malaysia and Singapore and by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions. While the calendars share a common lineage, they also have minor but important variations ...
Following is a list of events and scheduled events in the year 2023 in Thailand.The year 2023 is reckoned as the year 2566 in Buddhist Era, the Thai calendar.. Thai politics in 2023 has been marked by the 2023 General election in July, which saw the progressive Move Forward party, along with 7 other parties it formed a coalition with, win the election against pro-junta parties.
BANGKOK (AP) - Christmas is not a holiday in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, and its palm trees outnumber pines, but the country still set a world record with its holiday spirit. One of the ...
Public holidays in Thailand are regulated by the government, and most are observed by both the public and private sectors. There are usually nineteen public holidays in a year, but more may be declared by the cabinet. Other observances, both official and non-official, local and international, are observed to varying degrees throughout the country.