January 1 New Year’s Day
January 12 Memorial Day (honoring those who fought the Russians in 1881)
February 19 State Flag of Turkmenistan Day
March 8 Turkmen Woman’s Day
March 20-21 Nowruz Bayram (national spring holiday)
1st Sunday in April “A Drop of Water-A Grain of Gold” Festival
Last Sunday in April Turkmen Racing Horse Festival
May 8 Day of Commemoration of the National Heroes of the 1941-1945 World War
May 9 Victory Day (WWII)
May 18-19 Day of Revival, Unity, and the Poetry of Magtymguly
Last Sunday in May Carpet Day
June 27 Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art
3rd Sunday in July Galla Bayramy (celebration of the wheat harvest)
2nd Sunday in August Turkmen Melon Day
2nd Saturday in September Day of the Workers in the Oil, Gas, Power and Geological Industry
2nd Sunday in September Turkmen Bakhshi Day (celebrating Turkmen folk singers)
October 6 Commemoration and National Mourning (victims of the 1948 earthquake that destroyed Ashgabat)
October 27-28 Independence Day
1st Saturday in November Health Day
Last Sunday in November Harvest Festival (celebration of the cotton harvest)
1st Sunday in December Good Neighborliness Day
December 12 Day of Neutrality and Student Youth Day
First day of the lunar month of Bayram (Shawwal)- Oraza Bayram (the Muslim holiday of Eid
ul-Fitr), breaking of the fast at the end of the lunar month of Oraza (the ninth month in the
Islamic calendar)
Moving holiday (3 days)- Kurban Bayram (the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha)