Public holidays in Taiwan

The following are considered holidays in Taiwan. Some are official holidays, and some are not:

Table of Taiwan holidays

Public holidays

2024 Gregorian Date(s) Observed	Type of calendar followed	Date on calendar	English Name	Chinese Name	Remarks
January 1	Gregorian calendar	January 1	Founding of the Republic of China (also New Year's Day)	中華民國開國紀念日 / 元旦	Commemorates the establishment of the Provisional Government in Nanking.
February 9	Chinese calendar	Last day (29th/30th day) of the 12th month	Chinese New Year's Eve	農曆除夕	Eve of the Chinese New Year.
February 8, 10-14	Chinese calendar	First 3 working days of the 1st month	Spring Festival	春節	Day of Chinese New Year.
February 28	Gregorian calendar	February 28	Peace Memorial Day	228和平紀念日	Commemorates the February 28 Incident in 1947.
April 4-7	Gregorian calendar	April 4	Children's Day	兒童節	To make known the human rights of children and to stop the abuse of children.
April 4-7	Gregorian calendar	15th day after the Spring Equinox	Tomb Sweeping Day	淸明節	To remember and honor ancestors at grave sites
June 10	Chinese calendar	5th day of the 5th month	Dragon Boat Festival	端午節	Commemorates the death of the patriot Qu Yuan.
September 17	Chinese calendar	15th day of the 8th month	Mid-Autumn Festival	中秋節	Gathering the family together to celebrate the end of the harvest season
October 10	Gregorian calendar	October 10	National Day/Double Tenth Day	國慶日 / 雙十節	Commemorates the Wuchang Uprising of 1911, which began the Xinhai Revolution that led to the abolition of monarchy and establishment of a republican form of government.

Unofficial holidays

The following holidays are also observed on Taiwan but are not official holidays observed by civil servants of the central government. Some sectors of the workforce may have time off on some of the following holidays, such as Labor Day, Armed Forces Day, and Teachers' Day.

Gregorian calendar
Date	English Name	Local Name	Remarks
February 3, 4 or 5	Farmer's Day	農民節	Lichun, the beginning of spring
March 12	Arbor Day	國父逝世紀念日	Sun Yat-sen's passing on 12 March 1925
March 29	Youth Day	靑年節	Commemorates revolutionary Tenth Uprising in 1911
April 29, July 30	The Emperor's Birthday	天長節	The birthday of the reigning emperor has been a national holiday in Japan from 1868. Celebrated from 1895 to 1945 when Taiwan was a colony of Japan.
May 1	Labor Day	勞動節
May 4	Literary Day	文藝節	Commemorates May Fourth Movement
May (second Sunday)	Mother's Day	母親節	Buddha's birthday was changed to fit the date of Mother's Day.^[1]^[2]
June 3	Opium Suppression Movement Day	禁菸節	Commemorates burning of opium in the First Opium War of 1839
August 8	Father's Day	父親節	Held on August 8 because the pronunciation of 8 (八; ba) is very close to the Chinese word for “dad” (爸; ba)
September 1	Journalist' Day	記者節	Commemorates the promulgation of the Protection of Journalists and Public Opinion Organizations law in 1933^[3]
September 3	Armed Forces Day	軍人節	Honors the Republic of China Armed Forces, also Victory over Japan Day
September 28	Teachers' Day	孔子誕辰紀念日	Confucius' Birthday
October 21	Overseas Chinese Day	華僑節
October 25	Taiwan Retrocession Day	臺灣光復節	The Republic of China took control of Japanese Taiwan on 25 October 1945 and claimed that Taiwan had since returned to the Republic of China. However, the said claim is in dispute.
November 12	Sun Yat-sen's Birthday	國父誕辰紀念日	Also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day
Winter solstice	Dongzhi Festival	冬至
December 25	Constitution Day	行憲紀念日	Coincides with Christmas, and the anniversary of the 1947 ROC Constitution
	Aboriginal Festivals	原住民族歲時祭儀	Dates to be published by the Council of Indigenous Peoples varies according to tribes

Lunar calendar
Date	English Name	Local Name	Remarks
15th day of 1st lunar month	Lantern Festival	元宵節	Based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 1st lunar month	Tourism Day	觀光節	Based on Chinese calendar
2nd day of 2nd lunar month	Earth God's Birthday	土地公誕辰	Based on Chinese calendar
19th day of 2nd lunar month	Kuan Yin's Birthday	觀音誕辰	Based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 3rd lunar month	God of Medicine's Birthday	保生大帝誕辰	Based on Chinese calendar
23rd day of 3rd lunar month	Matsu's Birthday	媽祖誕辰	Based on Chinese calendar
8th day of 4th lunar month	Buddha's Birthday	佛誕日	Based on Chinese calendar
13th day of 5th lunar month	Kuan Kung's Birthday	關公誕辰	Based on Chinese calendar
13th day of 5th lunar month	Cheng Huang's Birthday	城隍爺誕辰	Based on Chinese calendar
7th day of 7th lunar month	Qixi Festival	七夕	Based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 7th lunar month	Ghost Festival	中元節	Based on Chinese calendar
9th day of 9th lunar month	Double Ninth Festival	重陽節	Based on Chinese calendar
15th day of 10th lunar month	Saisiat Festival	賽夏節	Pas-taai Festival of the Saisiat tribe

Before 1949, a number of public holidays were celebrated by certain ethnic minorities in regions within the ROC, which were decided by local governments and entities. Since 1949, these holidays continued to be celebrated by ethnic groups as such in Taiwan Area only.

Date	English name	Local name	Chinese name	Ethnic Groups
1.1 of Tibetan year	Losar	ལོ་གསར	藏曆新年	Tibetan community in Taiwan
30.6 of Tibetan calendar	Sho Dun	ཞོ་སྟོན།	雪頓節	Tibetan community in Taiwan
1.10 of Islamic calendar	Eid ul-Fitr	عيد الفطر	開齋節	Muslim community in Taiwan, not only Hui people, but also Filipino Muslim, Malay and Indonesian immigrants
10.12 of Islamic calendar	Eid al-Adha	عيد الأضحى	爾德節	Muslim community in Taiwan, not only Hui people, but also Filipino Muslim, Malay and Indonesian immigrants
3rd day of the 3rd Lunisolar month	Sam Nyied Sam	Sam Nyied Sam	三月三	Zhuang community in Taiwan

References

^ Camaron Kao (May 14, 2012), "Thousands of believers mark Buddha's birthday", China Post, archived from the original on June 16, 2013
^ Ko Shu-Ling (May 9, 2011), "Sakyamuni Buddha birthday celebrated", Taipei Times, The legislature approved a proposal in 1999 to designate the birthday of Sakyamuni Buddha — which falls on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar — a national holiday and to celebrate the special occasion concurrently with International Mother's Day, which is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
^ A Retrospective of Major News Media Events for the Republic of China’s Centennial Archived 3 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, United Daily News Online

External links

[1] Camaron Kao (May 14, 2012), "Thousands of believers mark Buddha's birthday", China Post, archived from the original on June 16, 2013

[2] Ko Shu-Ling (May 9, 2011), "Sakyamuni Buddha birthday celebrated", Taipei Times, The legislature approved a proposal in 1999 to designate the birthday of Sakyamuni Buddha — which falls on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar — a national holiday and to celebrate the special occasion concurrently with International Mother's Day, which is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.

[3] A Retrospective of Major News Media Events for the Republic of China’s Centennial Archived 3 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, United Daily News Online

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