2026: Calendar summary
Counts include weekends within holiday periods; make-up workdays are excluded.
- Holiday dates
- 26
- Holiday dates on weekdays
- 14
- Month with the most holiday dates
- February (9)
- Holiday dates in the other year (2027)
- 22
Dates run from 2026-01-01 to 2026-11-24; 12 fall on Saturday or Sunday. When months tie, the earliest month is shown.
Planning Vietnam visits, orders and approvals around holidays
Distinguish public employee breaks from company closures
This calendar shows Vietnam's public-employee holiday periods for a Saturday–Sunday rest pattern, including applicable statutory holidays and compensatory rest. A manufacturer, hotel or service provider can use a different operating schedule. The date table provides the public holiday periods; your booking or order record supplies the opening hours and service appointments for the particular business involved. Keeping those two layers separate makes a travel or delivery plan easier to follow.
For a practical plan, maintain three separate entries: the public date, the partner’s confirmed closure and the deadline for your transaction. If a supplier reports a shutdown that differs from the public employee break, preserve its explanation with the order. This lets a colleague understand why a dispatch date was chosen. It also avoids using a government source to support a claim that only the individual company can actually confirm.
Prepare Tet orders through the whole chain
For a Tet-sensitive order, identify materials, production, inspection, packing, collection and receipt as separate steps. Ask the supplier which steps are already complete and which require action from you. Design approval or a missing shipping instruction can be more important than the holiday date itself. Put the last acceptable decision date beside each outstanding item, with a named person responsible for replying before that deadline.
Consider a hypothetical order of branded bags. Production may be scheduled before the break, but the buyer has not approved a revised label and the carrier has not confirmed collection. The order cannot safely be treated as “ready to ship.” Ask for evidence of the current stage and agree whether the label can be approved in time. If it cannot, revise the plan with the supplier and customer rather than replacing an unconfirmed date with a hopeful estimate.
Ask precise questions about the return to work
A message saying the supplier reopens after Tet can refer to its office, factory, warehouse or shipping desk. Request the first date each team needed for your order will be available. Ask when your order can enter the queue and which remaining task must happen first. Keep that response tied to the actual purchase order. A general announcement may be useful background but is not an order-specific commitment.
Avoid assigning every supplier a fixed recovery delay. A realistic estimate depends on the work still required, the materials on hand and the capacity the supplier can confirm. If the next production slot remains uncertain, ask when the supplier will be able to confirm it. Tell your customer which milestone is confirmed and which is not. That communication is more useful than a precise date built from assumptions about how all factories operate.
Treat National Day adjustments as a separate check
National Day planning should be reviewed independently of Tet. Where an official arrangement includes an exchanged working day, record both the holiday interval and the make-up day. A team using a Monday-to-Friday project calendar can otherwise calculate the wrong number of available days. Check which arrangement applies to the organization involved and do not assume a Saturday adjustment means every private supplier will be operating normally.
For a meeting or approval involving another country, check both sides’ availability. Your Vietnamese contact may be working on an adjusted date while your own approver is away for a normal weekend. Arrange the approval earlier or agree a delegate rather than letting the task wait invisibly. A shared schedule should identify who is reachable, how urgent questions will be handled and when a response can reasonably be expected.
Make a travel plan from actual operating information
For travel, confirm the parts of the trip that would be hard to replace: transport, accommodation, a tour departure or an essential appointment. Ask the provider about the specific date and service rather than whether it is generally open during a festival. Save the confirmation and cancellation terms. HolidayDates does not supply live seat availability, fare forecasts or a guarantee that a named attraction will follow its ordinary timetable.
Build a daily itinerary that can survive one changed opening time. Keep alternative activities within a manageable area, check how you will return to your accommodation and avoid placing a critical appointment immediately after an uncertain transfer. If the trip involves collecting a document or meeting a supplier, confirm the responsible person’s attendance separately. Tourism services and administrative work answer different operational questions even when they fall on the same date.
Keep holiday dates and order milestones separate
The public calendar includes holiday periods, applicable observed dates and separately marked make-up workdays. The listed dates are the same ones supplied in the calendar downloads. A factory's last dispatch, warehouse reopening or first available inspection is a separate milestone, even when it falls near Tet or National Day. Put each milestone beside the order reference and responsible team so a colleague can distinguish a public holiday from a commitment for that particular shipment.
Keep outstanding supplier decisions in the order tracker, not as warnings attached to public holiday dates. If a partner changes its dispatch or reopening arrangement, update the related inspection, collection and receiving tasks together. Preserve the previous agreement when it explains an earlier promise to a customer. The Tet supplier checklist linked below provides questions for these order-specific handovers, including approval, packing, collection and the next action available when the supplier returns to work.