Editing Thai lunar calendar (section)

==Holidays regulated by the moon==
{{Main|Public holidays in Thailand}}
[[Uposatha]], colloquially called {{lang|th|วันพระ}}, are the New, First-quarter, Full, and Third-quarter Moon-days. These are not normally days off ({{lang|th|วันหยุด}}), except for [[butcher]], [[barber]], and [[beautician]] shops that observe the [[Eight Precepts]]. Annual holidays and seasonal festivals collectively are called {{lang|th|วันนักขัตฤกษ์}}.

Festivals or [[fair]]s are called {{lang|th|เทศกาล}}; these may be further styled as  {{lang|th|ประเพณี}} "[[tradition]]al" and as  {{langx|th|พิธี}}, "[[Ritual|rite]]" or "[[ceremony]]". The table shows the [[Uposatha#Special uposatha|principal]] ones governed by the moon in yellow.

Work holidays prescribed by the government are called {{langx|th|วันหยุดราชการ}}; those regulated by the moon are red.

Weekends are normally days off; if a holiday normally observed by a day off falls on a weekend, the following Monday is a compensatory day off {{langx|th|วันชดเชย}}.

{|
| style="background:pink; color:black" | Work holidays
| and
| bgcolor="lightyellow" | <span style="color:green;"> festivals </span>
| regulated by the moon: x = wa'''x'''ing moon; n = wa'''n'''ing
|}
{|- style="background:lightyellow; color:green"
|-
! Mo.
! Day
! Event
! ไทย
! Comment
|-
| 3†
| 1x
| [[Chinese New Year]]
| {{lang|th|ตรุษจีน}}
| ''Most shops owned by Chinese-Thai close''
|-
|- style="background:pink; color:black"
| 3
| 15x
| [[Magha Puja]]
| {{lang|th|วันมาฆบูชา}}
| ''Makha Bucha''
|-
|- style="background:pink; color:black"
| 6
| 15x
| [[Vesak]]
| {{lang|th|วิสาขบูชา}}
| ''Wisakha Bucha''
|-
|- style="background:pink; color:black"
| 8‡
| 15x
| [[Asalha Puja]]
| {{lang|th|อาสาฬหบูชา}}
| ''Asanha Bucha''
|-
|- style="background:pink; color:black"
| 8‡
| 1n
| [[Vassa|Wan Khao Phansa]]
| {{lang|th|วันเข้าพรรษา}}
| Begin ''Rains Retreat'', or "Buddhist [[Vassa|Lent]]"
|-
| 10
| 15n
| Thetsakan Sat
| {{lang|th|เทศกาลสารท}}
| The ''[[Vegetarian Festival]] ({{lang|th|เทศกาลวันสารท}})<ref>[http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp สารท ๑] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303000030/http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp |date=2009-03-03 }}</ref> now appears on calendars as ''thetsakan kin che kao wan'' ({{lang|th|เทศกาลกินเจเก้าวัน}}), ''(begin) Nine-day Vegetarian Festival''. ''Kin Jae'' <ref>[http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp กินเจ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303000030/http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp |date=2009-03-03 }}</ref> means (to vow) in the manner of Vietnamese or Chinese Buddhists to eat a strict vegetarian diet. ({{lang|th|เทศกาลกินเจ}})
|-
| 11
| 15x
| [[Wan Ok Phansa]]
| {{lang|th|วันออกพรรษา}}
| End ''Rains Retreat'', or "Buddhist Lent"
|-
| 11
| 1n
| [[Kathina|Thot Kathin]]
| {{lang|th|ทอดกฐิน}}
| ''Presentation of Monk's Robes after Rains Retreat''
|-
| 12
| 15x
| [[Loi Krathong]]
| {{lang|th|ลอยกระทง}}
|  Note that Loi Krathong dates are based on the Lanna (Northern Thailand) Lunar Calendar which is two months later than the Thai Lunar Calendar. Loy Krathong is actually on the second month of the Lanna calendar which is the 12th month of the central Thai calendar.
|}
Notes:
: † The Chinese New Year uses different methods of determining intercalary months, so this festival sometimes occurs a month earlier or later.
: ‡ Month 8/8 in years with the extra month.