{{Short description|None}} {{more footnotes|date=May 2013}} thumb|Parade during the Independence Day '''Public Holidays in Turkmenistan''' are laid out in the Constitution of Turkmenistan, which acts as a list of nationally recognized public holidays in the country.
==Main public holidays== * New Year's Day (January 1) * International Women's Day (March 8) * Nowruz (March 21–22) * State Flag and Constitution Day (May 18) * Independence Day (September 27) * Day of Remembrance (October 6) * Day of Neutrality (December 12) * Uraza Bayram (Shawwal 1; Gregorian date determined annually by Presidential decree) * Kurban Bayram (Dhu al-Hijja 10; Gregorian date determined annually by Presidential decree)
==Professional holidays== * Memorial Day (January 12) * Defender of the Fatherland Day (January 27) * Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (ru: Праздник туркменского скакуна) (27 April) * Day of Remembrance of National Heroes of Turkmenistan in the 1941-1945 World War (May 9) * Day of Revival, Unity, and the Poetry of Magtymguly (May 18–19) * Turkmen Carpet Day (День туркменского ковра) (last Sunday in May) * Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/_en/?idr=8&id=090623b|title= Turkmenistan: the golden age |website=www.turkmenistan.gov.tm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110611144545/http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/_en/?idr=8&id=090623b |accessdate=7 June 2025 |archive-date= 11 June 2011 }}</ref> (June 27) * Third Sunday in July – Galla Bayramy (celebration of the wheat harvest) * Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (May 29) * Border Guards Day (August 11) * Day of the Workers in the Oil, Gas, Power, and Geological Industry (second Saturday in September) * Turkmen Bakhshi Day (second Sunday in September) * Day of the Worker in the Organs of National Security (September 30) * Day of the Navy (October 9)
==Other holidays== * Turkmen Melon Day (Second Sunday in August) * Good Neighborliness Day (First Sunday in December) * Day of Remembrance of the First President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov
==References== {{Reflist}} * ''Independent Neutral Turkmenistan: 10 Glorious Years of the Epoch of Turkmenbashi the Great'', Ashgabat, 2001, pp. 49–51 {{in lang|ru}}. * ''Turkmenistan to the Heights of the Golden Age'', Ashgabat, 2005, p. 44. * ''Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000-2004'', National Institute of State Statistics and Information of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 2005, pp. 6–7.
==Further reading== *{{cite book|author=Paul Brummell|title=Turkmenistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fG9zk5Y3MugC&pg=PA49|year=2005|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-84162-144-9|pages=48–51}}
== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090302183713/http://www.sitara.com/turkmenistan/general.html Holidays in Turkmenistan]
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