{"country":"Taiwan","code":"tw","years":[2026,2027],"weekend_days":["Sunday","Saturday"],"scope":"National public holidays only; regional holidays are not included.","page":"https://timebento.com/public-holidays/tw.html","open_in_app":"https://timebento.com/tw","holidays":[{"date":"2026-01-01","name":"Founding Day of the Republic of China","day_off":true,"kind":"National, historical","about":"1 January, also New Year's Day, commemorates the establishment of the Provisional Government in Nanking.","at_work":"Fine to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-02-15","name":"Chinese New Year's Eve","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The eve of the Lunar New Year, a reunion day for ethnic Chinese families, who gather for a big meal and stay up to \"guard the year\" (shǒusuì). In China the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live on CCTV.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Most people have already travelled home, so expect little work. Plan deadlines before the eve.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a joyful reunion!","usual":{"days":"The start of the main New Year break"}},{"date":"2026-02-16","name":"Chinese New Year's Eve","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The eve of the Lunar New Year, a reunion day for ethnic Chinese families, who gather for a big meal and stay up to \"guard the year\" (shǒusuì). In China the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live on CCTV.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Most people have already travelled home, so expect little work. Plan deadlines before the eve.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a joyful reunion!","usual":{"days":"The start of the main New Year break"}},{"date":"2026-02-17","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2026-02-18","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2026-02-19","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2026-02-20","name":"Chinese New Year's Eve","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The eve of the Lunar New Year, a reunion day for ethnic Chinese families, who gather for a big meal and stay up to \"guard the year\" (shǒusuì). In China the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live on CCTV.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Most people have already travelled home, so expect little work. Plan deadlines before the eve.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a joyful reunion!","usual":{"days":"The start of the main New Year break"}},{"date":"2026-02-27","name":"Peace Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, remembrance","about":"28 February commemorates the February 28 Incident in 1947.","at_work":"A solemn day; mention it only with respect. A day off.","what_to_say":"Remembering this day with respect.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-02-28","name":"Peace Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, remembrance","about":"28 February commemorates the February 28 Incident in 1947.","at_work":"A solemn day; mention it only with respect. A day off.","what_to_say":"Remembering this day with respect.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-04-03","name":"Children's Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, family","about":"4 April is Children's Day, which aims to make known the human rights of children and to stop the abuse of children.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy Children's Day!","usual":{"days":"1–4 days"}},{"date":"2026-04-04","name":"Children's Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, family","about":"4 April is Children's Day, which aims to make known the human rights of children and to stop the abuse of children.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy Children's Day!","usual":{"days":"1–4 days"}},{"date":"2026-04-05","name":"Tomb-Sweeping Day","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional (Chinese)","about":"The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrating spring. Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings of food and the burning of joss sticks and joss paper, as a reverence of their ancestors. It is observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and other countries.","at_work":"Fine to mention. It falls in early April.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a peaceful Qingming.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-04-06","name":"Tomb-Sweeping Day","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional (Chinese)","about":"The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrating spring. Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings of food and the burning of joss sticks and joss paper, as a reverence of their ancestors. It is observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and other countries.","at_work":"Fine to mention. It falls in early April.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a peaceful Qingming.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-05-01","name":"Labor Day","day_off":true,"kind":"Civic","about":"International Workers' Day, on 1 May, honours workers and the labour movement. The date was chosen to commemorate the 1886 general strike in the United States that culminated in the Haymarket affair, and the day was adopted in support of a \"great international demonstration\" for the eight-hour day.","at_work":"Fine to mention the day off. In some countries it has a political side, so keep it about the break.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-06-19","name":"Dragon Boat Festival","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional (Chinese)","about":"The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival or Tuen Ng Festival, is a traditional Chinese holiday on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, in late May or early June. It commemorates Qu Yuan, the prime minister of the state of Chu in the Warring States period, and is celebrated with dragon boat races and by eating sticky rice dumplings.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off in several places.","what_to_say":"Happy Dragon Boat Festival!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-09-25","name":"Mid-Autumn Festival","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"A harvest festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Families eat mooncakes and gather under the full moon, and lanterns light the night. It is based on the legend of Chang'e, the moon goddess.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Giving mooncakes to colleagues and clients is common.","what_to_say":"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!","usual":{"days":"1 day or a long weekend","note":"In some years it is joined to a weekend or to Golden Week."}},{"date":"2026-09-28","name":"Confucius' Birthday","day_off":true,"kind":"National, cultural","about":"28 September, also observed as Teachers' Day, was added as a national holiday by the Memorial Days and Holidays Implementation Act passed in May 2025.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy Teachers' Day!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-10-09","name":"National Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National","about":"Also called Double Ten Day. Marks the start of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, which led to the founding of the Republic of China and the end of imperial rule. In Taiwan the day opens with a flag-raising in front of the Presidential Office Building, the President addresses the country, and there are fireworks in the major cities.","at_work":"Fine to mention. Keep it about the day off. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the holiday!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-10-10","name":"National Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National","about":"Also called Double Ten Day. Marks the start of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, which led to the founding of the Republic of China and the end of imperial rule. In Taiwan the day opens with a flag-raising in front of the Presidential Office Building, the President addresses the country, and there are fireworks in the major cities.","at_work":"Fine to mention. Keep it about the day off. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the holiday!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-10-25","name":"Taiwan Restoration and Guningtou Victory Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, historical","about":"25 October, called Retrocession Day, commemorates the Republic of China resuming sovereignty over Taiwan in 1945, a claim that is in dispute. It also coincides with the first day of the Victory of Guningtou on Quemoy in 1949.","at_work":"Fine to mention with care. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-10-26","name":"Taiwan Restoration and Guningtou Victory Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, historical","about":"25 October, called Retrocession Day, commemorates the Republic of China resuming sovereignty over Taiwan in 1945, a claim that is in dispute. It also coincides with the first day of the Victory of Guningtou on Quemoy in 1949.","at_work":"Fine to mention with care. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2026-12-25","name":"Constitution Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National","about":"Marks the adoption of the constitution of the Republic of China on 25 December 1947. It was restored as a public holiday in 2025.","at_work":"Fine to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-01-01","name":"Founding Day of the Republic of China","day_off":true,"kind":"National, historical","about":"1 January, also New Year's Day, commemorates the establishment of the Provisional Government in Nanking.","at_work":"Fine to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-02-04","name":"Chinese New Year's Eve","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The eve of the Lunar New Year, a reunion day for ethnic Chinese families, who gather for a big meal and stay up to \"guard the year\" (shǒusuì). In China the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live on CCTV.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Most people have already travelled home, so expect little work. Plan deadlines before the eve.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a joyful reunion!","usual":{"days":"The start of the main New Year break"}},{"date":"2027-02-05","name":"Chinese New Year's Eve","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The eve of the Lunar New Year, a reunion day for ethnic Chinese families, who gather for a big meal and stay up to \"guard the year\" (shǒusuì). In China the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live on CCTV.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Most people have already travelled home, so expect little work. Plan deadlines before the eve.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a joyful reunion!","usual":{"days":"The start of the main New Year break"}},{"date":"2027-02-06","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2027-02-07","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2027-02-08","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2027-02-09","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2027-02-10","name":"Chinese New Year","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"The start of the year in the traditional lunisolar calendar, also called the Spring Festival, celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Customs include red envelopes, firecrackers, lion and dragon dances and red lanterns. Korea celebrates its own lunar New Year as Seollal and Vietnam as Tết.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, so plan deadlines and shipments around it.","what_to_say":"Happy New Year! Wishing you health and prosperity. \"Xīnnián kuàilè\" (Mandarin) and \"Gong hei fat choy\" (Cantonese) are common greetings.","usual":{"days":"3 days to about a week","note":"The length of the official break differs between China, Korea, Vietnam and other places that celebrate it."}},{"date":"2027-02-28","name":"Peace Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, remembrance","about":"28 February commemorates the February 28 Incident in 1947.","at_work":"A solemn day; mention it only with respect. A day off.","what_to_say":"Remembering this day with respect.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-03-01","name":"Peace Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, remembrance","about":"28 February commemorates the February 28 Incident in 1947.","at_work":"A solemn day; mention it only with respect. A day off.","what_to_say":"Remembering this day with respect.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-04-04","name":"Children's Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, family","about":"4 April is Children's Day, which aims to make known the human rights of children and to stop the abuse of children.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy Children's Day!","usual":{"days":"1–4 days"}},{"date":"2027-04-05","name":"Tomb-Sweeping Day","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional (Chinese)","about":"The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrating spring. Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings of food and the burning of joss sticks and joss paper, as a reverence of their ancestors. It is observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and other countries.","at_work":"Fine to mention. It falls in early April.","what_to_say":"Wishing you a peaceful Qingming.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-04-06","name":"Children's Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, family","about":"4 April is Children's Day, which aims to make known the human rights of children and to stop the abuse of children.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy Children's Day!","usual":{"days":"1–4 days"}},{"date":"2027-04-30","name":"Labor Day","day_off":true,"kind":"Civic","about":"International Workers' Day, on 1 May, honours workers and the labour movement. The date was chosen to commemorate the 1886 general strike in the United States that culminated in the Haymarket affair, and the day was adopted in support of a \"great international demonstration\" for the eight-hour day.","at_work":"Fine to mention the day off. In some countries it has a political side, so keep it about the break.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-05-01","name":"Labor Day","day_off":true,"kind":"Civic","about":"International Workers' Day, on 1 May, honours workers and the labour movement. The date was chosen to commemorate the 1886 general strike in the United States that culminated in the Haymarket affair, and the day was adopted in support of a \"great international demonstration\" for the eight-hour day.","at_work":"Fine to mention the day off. In some countries it has a political side, so keep it about the break.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-06-09","name":"Dragon Boat Festival","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional (Chinese)","about":"The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival or Tuen Ng Festival, is a traditional Chinese holiday on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, in late May or early June. It commemorates Qu Yuan, the prime minister of the state of Chu in the Warring States period, and is celebrated with dragon boat races and by eating sticky rice dumplings.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off in several places.","what_to_say":"Happy Dragon Boat Festival!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-09-15","name":"Mid-Autumn Festival","day_off":true,"kind":"Cultural and traditional","about":"A harvest festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Families eat mooncakes and gather under the full moon, and lanterns light the night. It is based on the legend of Chang'e, the moon goddess.","at_work":"Very welcome to mention. Giving mooncakes to colleagues and clients is common.","what_to_say":"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!","usual":{"days":"1 day or a long weekend","note":"In some years it is joined to a weekend or to Golden Week."}},{"date":"2027-09-28","name":"Confucius' Birthday","day_off":true,"kind":"National, cultural","about":"28 September, also observed as Teachers' Day, was added as a national holiday by the Memorial Days and Holidays Implementation Act passed in May 2025.","at_work":"Welcome to mention. A day off.","what_to_say":"Happy Teachers' Day!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-10-10","name":"National Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National","about":"Also called Double Ten Day. Marks the start of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, which led to the founding of the Republic of China and the end of imperial rule. In Taiwan the day opens with a flag-raising in front of the Presidential Office Building, the President addresses the country, and there are fireworks in the major cities.","at_work":"Fine to mention. Keep it about the day off. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the holiday!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-10-11","name":"National Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National","about":"Also called Double Ten Day. Marks the start of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, which led to the founding of the Republic of China and the end of imperial rule. In Taiwan the day opens with a flag-raising in front of the Presidential Office Building, the President addresses the country, and there are fireworks in the major cities.","at_work":"Fine to mention. Keep it about the day off. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the holiday!","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-10-25","name":"Taiwan Restoration and Guningtou Victory Memorial Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National, historical","about":"25 October, called Retrocession Day, commemorates the Republic of China resuming sovereignty over Taiwan in 1945, a claim that is in dispute. It also coincides with the first day of the Victory of Guningtou on Quemoy in 1949.","at_work":"Fine to mention with care. A day off.","what_to_say":"Enjoy the day off.","usual":{"days":"1 day"}},{"date":"2027-12-24","name":"Constitution Day","day_off":true,"kind":"National","about":"Marks the adoption of the constitution of the Republic of China on 25 December 1947. It was restored as a public holiday in 2025.","at_work":"Fine to mention. 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