Taiwan 2026 Public Holidays

Republic Day

The anniversary of the founding of the republic — varies by country.

Marks the adoption of a republican constitution or the end of a monarchy. Observed in India, Italy, Turkey, Portugal and a number of other states.

Lunar New Year Holiday

The days following Lunar New Year's Day, extended each year by government announcement.

The additional days of the new year break. The statutory minimum is three, but the Executive Yuan publishes an adjusted calendar each year that bridges the holiday into neighbouring weekends, compensated by designated working Saturdays.

Lunar New Year's Eve

The last day of the twelfth lunar month, falling in late January or February.

The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is the most important meal of the Taiwanese year, and the night when families gather regardless of how far they have moved. A public holiday in its own right, ahead of the new year days that follow.

Lunar New Year's Day

The first day of the first lunar month, between 21 January and 20 February.

The start of the lunar year and the longest holiday Taiwan observes. Days one to three are statutory, and the government routinely extends the break with adjusted working weekends, producing stretches of seven to nine days.

Peace Memorial Day Holiday

A day added to the 28 February holiday when it falls next to a weekend.

An extra day off attached to Peace Memorial Day so the break runs continuously with the weekend.

Peace Memorial Day

28 February.

Commemorates the 228 Incident of 1947, when a crackdown on protests began the period of martial law known as the White Terror. Made a public holiday in 1997, fifty years after the event, and a day of official remembrance rather than celebration.

Children's Day Holiday

4 April, adjacent to Tomb Sweeping Day.

Children's Day was restored as a public holiday in 2011 and sits next to Tomb Sweeping Day, so the two are normally taken together.

Children's Day

1 June across the post-Soviet states and much of Asia; other dates elsewhere.

Honours children. A public holiday in a number of countries, and in China a day off for children under thirteen rather than for everyone.

Tomb Sweeping Day

Around 4–5 April, at the Qingming solar term.

Families visit ancestral graves to clean the headstones and make offerings. In Taiwan the date is fixed to 5 April in some years to coincide with the anniversary of Chiang Kai-shek's death, and it is commonly combined with Children's Day into a longer spring break.

Tomb Sweeping Day Holiday

A day added to Tomb Sweeping Day so the break runs with the weekend.

An extra day off attached to Tomb Sweeping Day, usually bridging it with Children's Day and the surrounding weekend into a four-day break.

Labor Day

1 May in most countries; the first Monday of September in the United States and Canada.

The workers' holiday. Almost everywhere it falls on 1 May; in the United States and Canada it was deliberately placed in September to avoid the associations of May Day.

Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, in May or June.

Duanwu commemorates the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 278 BC. Marked by dragon boat races and by eating zongzi, glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves.

Mid-Autumn Festival

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, in September or October.

The harvest moon festival, marked by mooncakes and family gatherings. Taiwan has its own addition to the tradition: outdoor barbecues, a custom that began with a 1980s advertising campaign and stuck.

Teachers' Day

5 October in many countries; other dates elsewhere.

Honours teachers. Where it is a day off it is usually limited to schools rather than the wider economy.

National Day Holiday

Additional days off around the national day.

Extra days attached to the national day. China's National Day break in early October is the largest example, running seven days with weekends rescheduled around it.

National Day

Varies by country — a founding, unification, or constitutional anniversary.

The principal patriotic holiday of a country that does not frame its national day as independence — a founding, unification, revolution or monarch's day depending on the state.

Taiwan's Retrocession Day

25 October.

Marks the handover of Taiwan from Japanese to Republic of China administration in 1945. Restored as a public holiday in 2025 after decades as a commemorative day only.

Day off for Taiwan's Retrocession Day

25 October.

Retrocession Day marks the handover of Taiwan from Japanese to Republic of China administration in 1945. Restored as a public holiday in 2025 after decades as a commemorative day only.

Constitution Day

The anniversary of the adoption of the constitution — varies by country.

Marks the adoption of a country's constitution. A major public holiday in Norway, Poland, Denmark, Japan, Mexico and South Korea, among others.