Chinese New Year | Tomb Sweeping Day | Dragon Boat Festival | Mid Autumn Festival | 228 Incident | Double Ten Day | Teacher’s Day | Founding Day – New Years Eve | Ghost Month | Taiwan Official Holidays
Calendar of official government holidays for Taiwan (up to date as of January 1st, 2018)
| Dates Holiday Observed | Holiday | Holiday Details |
|---|---|---|
| January 1st | New Years Day | 3 day weekend from Saturday to Monday |
| Wed Feb 14th ** | Chinese New Years Eve | Chinese New Years Eve / **Technically not a hoilday |
| Thursday, Feb. 15 to Tuesday, Feb. 20th | Chinese New Year Holiday | The official CNY holiday is 6 days in 2018. |
| Wed. February 28th | Peace Memorial Day | Peace Memorial Day (Commemorating the 2/28 incident in 1947, which is every year on February 28th). |
| Monday and Tuesday April 4th thru April 6th | Tomb Sweeping Day & Children’s Day | In 2018 Tomb Sweeping Day and Children’s day are being observed on from Wed. to Friday for a 5 day weekend. |
| Monday June 18th | Dragon Boat Festival | In 2018 the Dragon Boat Festival is a 3 day holiday. The holiday commemorates Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese scholar, who lived in the third century BCE and served the king of Chu. After being exiled for crimes he did not commit, he drowned himself in a river, after which eating Zhongzi became a tradition to remember Qu Yuan (originally thought to be a way of preventing fish from eating his body). |
| Monday, September 24th. | Mid-Autumn Festival | 2018 is a Monday giving Taiwanese a 3 day weekend. This festival is also commonly called the Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, and the Chinese Lantern Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, which translates to September or October in the Gregorian solar calendar. |
| Wednesday, October 10th. | National Day | 2018 Double-Ten is one day this year. The holiday commemorates the founding of the Republic of China on October 10th, 1911. |
