Songkran Festival Bangkok

Thai New Year or Songkran is the Thai New Yearsnational holiday. Songkran is on 13 April every year, but
the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to seven days, 9–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. In 2019, the holiday was observed 9–16 April as 13
April fell on a Saturday. The word “Songkran”comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti, literally “astrological passage”, meaning transformation or change. Itcoincides with the rising of Aries on the astrologicalchart and with the New Year of many calendars ofSoutheast and South Asia, in keeping with the Buddhist
and Hindu Calendar.