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Water and Moon Festival Bon Om Touk in Phnom Penh/Nationwide
Bon Om Touk, Cambodia's Water and Moon Festival, is a three-day national holiday held on the full moon of the Buddhist month Kadeuk, typically in November, centered on Phnom Penh's riverfront. It combines longboat races, illuminated float processions, and a moon-worship harvest rite, all tied to the Tonle Sap River's seasonal flow reversal and a twelfth-century naval-victory legend. It is Cambodia's largest annual gathering.
Bon Om Touk, widely translated as the Water and Moon Festival, is Cambodia's largest annual gathering, drawing an estimated one to two million people to Phnom Penh's riverfront over three days each year on the full moon of the Buddhist month Kadeuk, typically in November.