Thai New Year Calendar
The word Songkran is derived from the Sanskrit work samkranti which means astrological passage.
Thai new year calendar. Chinese New Year 26 Feb. The festival celebrates the end of the dry season to welcome the rain needed for a successful rice harvest. 2018 AD - พศ.
Songkran celebrates the Thai New Year and the end of the dry season which roughly runs from November until late March or early April. India 2021 Calendar with holidays. This year 2021 in Europe is year 2564 in Thailand.
The Thai solar calendar determines a persons legal age and secular holidays including the civil new year as well as the three days of the traditional Thai New Years feast. While the Thai solar and Gregorian calendar starts on 1st January the Thai New Year doesnt. It is called SONGKRAN.
Calendar for Year 2021. What are the origins of Songkran. This is when they partake in the worlds largest water fight known as Songkran.