Myanmar’s New Year water festival, held at roughly the same time as Songkran, is called Thingyan.
Thingyan is Myanmar’s traditional New Year festival and usually takes place over several days in April. Water symbolizes washing away the previous year’s troubles, making it a close cultural parallel to Thailand’s Songkran.
The festival has Buddhist and older South Asian calendrical influences. People visit monasteries, make offerings, pay respect to elders, and join public water celebrations. Yangon and Mandalay are among the places especially associated with large festivities.
Thingyan is sometimes loosely called Myanmar’s Songkran, but Thingyan is the Burmese name for Myanmar’s own New Year observance. Laos uses the name Pi Mai for its related festival, while Cambodia celebrates Chol Chnam Thmey.