2026: Calendar summary
Counts include weekends within holiday periods; make-up workdays are excluded.
- Holiday dates
- 22
- Holiday dates on weekdays
- 16
- Month with the most holiday dates
- February (8)
- Holiday dates in the other year (2027)
- 24
Dates run from 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-25; 6 fall on Saturday or Sunday. When months tie, the earliest month is shown.
Using Taiwan’s holiday calendar for travel and work
Check whose working calendar you need
Taiwan’s government office calendar is useful for planning administrative appointments, but it should not be treated as a universal opening schedule. The Directorate-General of Personnel Administration distinguishes the government calendar from arrangements for private-sector employees and school calendars. A date on an official government calendar therefore needs context before it becomes a promise about a factory, a school visit, or a customer support team.
Write the purpose of your check beside the date. “Government counter appointment,” “supplier dispatch” and “school visit” require different confirmations. If the task involves a named office, use that office’s booking information as well as the annual calendar. For a business meeting, confirm the attendance of the person who can make the decision. A building being open does not tell you whether a particular department is staffed or whether a visitor can be received.
Read observed dates as carefully as festival dates
A festival’s calendar date can differ from the day a government office observes the holiday. Read the selected year’s announcement and the entries marked as observed or substitute dates. Do not rely on a blanket assumption that every weekend festival moves to Monday. Where several holidays fall close together, the arrangement can depend on the dates around them. Use the published year rather than applying an informal rule remembered from an earlier trip.
When creating a shared itinerary, retain the original holiday name and identify an observed date clearly. This prevents an overseas colleague from counting two independent celebrations when there is one festival with an additional closure arrangement. It also makes it easier to ask an employer about the exact date in question. For staffing or pay decisions, consult the rules applicable to the employer; a general travel calendar cannot resolve a specific employee’s entitlement.
Plan a Lunar New Year visit by reservation
Treat a Lunar New Year trip as a sequence of confirmed arrangements: arrival, onward transport, accommodation and the activities that require reservations. Before paying for a fixed itinerary, check that all essential parts fit together. A room reservation does not confirm a restaurant booking, and a transport ticket does not establish that the place you intend to visit will be open on arrival. Keep opening notices with the relevant reservation details.
A practical family itinerary has one main activity and a realistic alternative for each day. Choose the alternative for its actual accessibility and opening hours, rather than assuming every smaller venue will be available. If traveling with children or someone who needs frequent breaks, check transfer distances, accessible entrances and rest facilities. These are planning choices you can control even when you do not have a reliable prediction of crowds or transport demand.
Confirm manufacturing approvals before dispatch
For an order involving a Taiwanese supplier, separate production completion from permission to dispatch. A sample may need an engineer’s approval, packaging may need a final check, and the receiving warehouse may require an appointment. Each step has an owner. Ask those owners for the last date they can complete their part before a closure, rather than accepting one general statement that the order will be ready before the holiday.
For example, an overseas buyer might approve a design while its logistics coordinator is already away. The supplier then holds finished goods because collection instructions are missing. Avoid that gap by agreeing the booking reference, pickup contact and required documents before the final working day. If one item remains provisional, label it that way in the order tracker. A visible unresolved task is easier to manage than an assumed dispatch date that nobody has confirmed.
Keep school and public-service arrangements distinct
A government holiday list is not a school-term calendar. For a campus visit or family move, obtain the calendar for the particular institution and check whether the relevant administrative office follows the same timetable as teaching. The start or end of a vacation may affect the availability of staff without being a national holiday. Record the school’s own announcement as the source instead of trying to derive its timetable from public dates.
Public-service visits also need an operational check. Confirm whether the service requires an appointment, which documents are needed and whether processing continues after submission. Filing a request on an open day does not guarantee completion that day. If the result is needed before travel, ask the responsible office about the actual procedure and timeline. Keep the response with the appointment so the person attending knows which parts have been confirmed.
Check the year boundary and maintain the plan
At the end of a year, inspect both the final dates of the selected calendar and the beginning of the next one. An observed closure connected with a New Year holiday can fall on a date in the preceding year. This matters for payments, document collection and an arrival scheduled just before January. Do not assume a file labeled with one year contains every related event from a neighboring year; check the file’s stated date coverage.
The calendar contains government-office holiday dates and substitutes for the selected year. The summary compares those dates between years; it is separate from an employee's annual leave balance. Keep public holidays in their own calendar and personal meetings in another. When replacing an imported file with a newer download, use your application's replacement or duplicate-handling options. Store reservation numbers and the operator's opening hours with the individual appointment so a public-calendar update does not remove your bookings.