National public holidays calendar 2025

If my data sources are correct, that would produce a four day holiday in 2026 with Mid-Autumn festival on Friday 25th September, and Confucius’ Birthday/Teachers’ Day on Monday 28th September.

Constitution Day/‘Chiang Kai Shek’s Christmas Day’ will fall on a Friday in 2026, meaning a potential 3 day weekend for Christmas and then another one starting New Year’s Day 2027.

In fact, all holidays in 2026, including the new ones, fall either next to a weekend or on one, so all will produce 3 or 4 day weekends.

With this and the addition of “Little New Year”/The Night Before C̶h̶r̶… e̶r̶… Chinese New Year’s Eve, I see the total removal of any need for makeup days on Saturdays. I don’t see any marked on that calendar, but then neither have the weekdays been shown that will be days off to mark the holidays that fall on a weekend, so that doesn’t really mean anything yet.

(I personally preferred the recently abandoned system of making four/five day weekends even if we had to work makeup days on Saturdays. Of course, the potential five three day weekends and one [or potentially two including Children’s Day/“Tomb Sweeping Festival”!] four day weekend(s) in 2026, plus the sudden potential extra two long weekends this year plus Xmas Day will do for now! I can hope that extra long weekends still make a comeback in 2027 and 2028.) :slight_smile:

And last but certainly not least, pleased to see this in your linked article:

The legislation also changes the current one-day holiday for indigenous peoples’ annual ceremonies to a three-day holiday chosen by indigenous persons based on the ceremonies of their respective tribe.

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