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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Mongolia

The list of Mongolia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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06 Jun 2008 (Montsame) One of the Deputy Premiers of Mongolia, and Head of the ''Naadam'' national holiday organizing committee, has announced that the Naadam national day public holiday would be celebrated from July 11-13, as usual, in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, but that the rural areas who will be celebrating their Aimags (province) foundation jubilees at that time, "will celebrate the national Holiday a bit earlier, July 9-10". • 30 Jan 2008 (Newswire-Ulaanbaatar) Mongolia's general public has recently been confused as to whether Mongolia should celebrate the new year public holiday of Tsagaan Sar (White Moon or White Month) on February 7 or 8, 2008. The government-sanctioned religious authorities of the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery assert that Tsagaan Sar should occur on February 8, while another astrologer, D. Dashtseren, predicts February 7. The Bank of Mongolia has listed February 8 as the official Tsagan Sar public holiday. • 21 Jun 2007 (China Post) The Government of Mongolia announced that Mongolia will ban all sports and entertainment events in a national day of mourning for 15 people killed this week in a helicopter crash. • 10 Jan 2006 (Mongolia Web) This year the Tsagaan Sar, Lunar New Year, will be celebrated from January 29 to 31, with the public holiday starting on the 30th, as the 29th is Bituun (the Eve of Tsagaan Sar). January 30th, will be Shiniin Negen the first day of Year of the Dog. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Mongolia public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Mongolia are regulated by Section 76 of the Labour Code of Mongolia, which came into force on July 1st, 1999. It was later amended to add International Women's Day to the list of public holidays in Mongolia. • Week-end Public Holidays: The Labour Code of Mongolia makes no special provisions for the occurrence of public holidays on a week-end, and the Mongol Bank (Mongolia's Central Bank) lists all public holidays as remaining on their set days. However, some government services are known to move Saturday holidays to Fridays and Sunday holidays to Mondays. Our local sources also indicate that when one of the major 3-day holidays (Lunar New Year and Naadam) falls on a weekend, the government may, at its discretion, decalre an additional day off for everyone. • Tsargaan Sar: Ever since Mongolia became independent in the early 1990s, there has been an ongoing debate regarding the Tsargaan Sar public holiday as to whether it should be calculated the same way that the Chinese Lunar New Year is, or the same way that the Tibetan New Year (Losar) is calculated. Both methods yield the same result about half the time, and otherwise the Tibetan method produces a date 29 to 30 days later than the Chinese method. In 2002, the Government of Mongolia co-organized a project with the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery to settle down the issue of date confusions. The project’s outcome, in which many scientists, astronomers, religious figures, lamas and astrologists contributed, was a calendar made based on “Togs Buyant” astrology that defined lunar days from the year 1027 until 2106. The practical result is a practice that basically moves the date of Tsagaan Sar by one day, on the years when Losar and Chinese New Year fall on the same date, to prove that they do no rely on the Chinese calendar (the official explanation is that they moved the date to ensure that Tsagaan Sar does not occur on a “black wind day”). • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Bank of Mongolia (Mongolia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Mongolia, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Mongolia, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Mongolia. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Mongolia that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Lunisolar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict lunar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Mongolia are based on the geographical location of Ulaanbaatar (latitude 47,9°N, longitude 106,8°E, GMT+8,0 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2009 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Mongolia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Mongolia, before planning any trip to Mongolia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.