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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Taiwan

The list of Taiwan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2010, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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31 Aug 2010 (The China Post-Taipei) Taiwan's Cabinet-level Central Personnel Administration (CPA) has released a draft calendar of official non-working public holidays in Taiwan in 2011. • 22 May 2010 (Taiwan's Executive Yuan-Taipei) Taiwan's Executive Yuan has approved a draft bill which would replace the current declaration of public holidays, and compensatory working Saturdays, executive orders by the Cabinet, by permanent legislation. • 25 Mar 2010 (The China Times-Taipei) Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior has officially confirmed that, beginning in 2011, Children’s Day will once again be a national public holiday, to be observed annually on April 4th. • 18 Mar 2010 (Taiwan News Online-Taipei) Former Taiwan Vice President, Annette Lu, has called for March 23 to be celebrated as National Sovereignty and Independence Memorial Day to mark the anniversary of the first direct presidential elections in 1996. • 24 Feb 2010 (Taiwan Central News Agency-Taipei) Taiwan's Interior Minister, Jiang Yi-huah, has announced that Children's Day, on April 4, would be reinstated as a national public holiday in 2011. • 07 Jan 2010 (Taiwan Today-Taipei) On Tuesday, Taiwan's Legislature passed the Hakka Basic Act aimed at promoting Hakka language and culture, and obliging the government to designate a national Hakka Day holiday. • 05 Nov 2009 (Taiwan Today-Taipei) Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior has approved a proposal to declare a "new", April 4, annual public holiday for Children's Day. • 02 Nov 2009 (CNA News-Taipei) Taiwan's Premier, Wu Den-yih, has instructed Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior (MOI) to consider setting up a Grandparents Day national holiday. • 21 Oct 2009 (Radio Taiwan International-Taipei) Speaking in the legislature, yesterday, Taiwan's Premier, Wu Den-yih, announced that he would ask Taiwan's interior ministry whether Matsu's birthday should be made a national holiday. • 17 Aug 2009 (Taiwan Central Personnel Administration-Taipei) Taiwan's Central Personnel Administration has published its list of 2010 public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Taiwan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekend Public Holidays: When the Memorial public holidays and the Festival public holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday, a deferred day off is not allowed. However, Chinese New Year and Chinese New Year's Eve are exempted from this regulation. The regulations for deferred holiday for Labor Day and the Military Memorial Days or other deferred days are determined by the Central Agency Responsible. • Bridge Holidays are sometimes declared on Mondays or Fridays to be able to have an extra long holiday period that would then include a weekend. Work Saturdays are often then declared in order to make up for these extra public holidays. In Taiwan, the Work Saturdays seem to almost always be the Saturday of the following week. This practice, however, seems to have been suspended for calendar year 2008. • 2007 Work Saturdays: March 3, April 14, June 23, September 29. • Non-Official Holidays: The following are not official public holidays, but companies can give their employees a day off at their discretion: •Youth Day (Mach 29) • Women and Children's Day (April 4) •Buddha's Birthday •Confucius' Birthday or Teacher's Day (Sept. 28) •Retrocession Day (Oct. 25) •Chiang Kai Sek's Birthday (Oct. 31) •Sun Yet Sin's Birthday (Nov. 12) •Constitution or Christmas Day (Dec. 25). • Taiwan International Codes TW and TWN (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .tw (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Taiwan information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Taiwan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Taiwan), and Wikipedia (includes Taiwan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Taiwan, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world. Aft=Afternoon, Arm=Armenian, Bah=Bahai, Bnk=Banks and most financial institutions, Bud=Buddhist, Cat=Catholic, Chr=Christian, Cop=Coptic, Eve=Evening, Gov=Government services and civil servants, Hin=Hindu, Jew=Jewish, Lin=Linguistic or ethnic groups, Mor=Morning, Mun=Municipal, Mus=Muslim, Orth=Orthodox, Othr=Miscellaneous partial observances (usually described in the Additional Information section of this page), Prt=Protestant, Reg=Regional, Rel=Other Religion, Sch=Schools and universities, Sik=Sikh.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2010 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Taiwan, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Taiwan, before planning any trip to Taiwan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.