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Mother's Day in Thailand

Light blue, the Friday colour of Queen Sirikit, whose birthday became Thai Mother’s Day, and white jasmine for mothers.

Queen Sirikit in 25 October 1960
Photo: Joop van Bilsen / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

The colours of Mother's Day in Thailand

The twelfth of August is the birthday of Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother (1932 to 2025), and has been kept as Mother's Day in Thailand since 1976. She was born on a Friday, and in the Thai system Friday's colour is light blue. For decades, each August, people have worn light blue shirts and buildings have flown her light blue flag beside the national one. The flower of the day is white jasmine. Children kneel before their mothers at school ceremonies and give them a jasmine garland; its whiteness and its lasting scent are taken as signs of a mother's pure and constant love. In the same way the present queen, Suthida, born on a Saturday, is honoured in purple on 3 June.

#6EC1E4Friday blueThe birthday colour of Queen Sirikit.
#FFFEF7Jasmine whiteThe flower given to mothers.
#7B4BA6Saturday purpleThe colour of Queen Suthida, born on a Saturday.

Values are fair approximations, not official shades.

Read about the colours

Sky blueFriday’s colour in Thailand.Baby blueA similar pale blue.WhiteJasmine.
About this page

Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Sirikit" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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