Public Holiday Calendar and Employment Scenarios

This dataset records the recurring holiday list and the official 2026 and 2027 dates published by the Ministry of Manpower. It is a date-and-entitlement reference, not a complete calendar of Singapore's cultural or religious life. “Observed day” below is deliberately employee-specific where the legal outcome depends on a person's designated rest or non-working day. Check the live MOM calendar before booking or calculating pay, because future religious dates can be revised and an additional holiday can be declared for a particular event.

Recurring 11 paid public-holiday days

The list and paid entitlement are stated in MOM's Employment Act guide. It contains 11 days but ten named occasions because Chinese New Year has two entries. A special declaration may create an additional public holiday in a particular year, so do not use this recurring list to deny a date that appears in an official annual gazette or MOM calendar. The Holidays Act and Employment Act answer related but distinct legal questions.

Official calendar for 2026

The dates and conditional Monday notes reproduce MOM's official 2026 calendar as accessed on 14 August 2026. “—” means no special weekend note is needed in this table, not that every employee is off or every business is closed. The Saturday Hari Raya Puasa outcome depends on whether Saturday is that employee's working day, non-working day or rest day. The Sunday notes are framed conditionally because a rest day is a fact about a work schedule, not a universal synonym for Sunday.

Official calendar for 2027

MOM published the 2027 dates on 18 June 2026 and expressly identified Monday 8 February after the Sunday second day of Chinese New Year (official release). It did not list a Monday replacement after the Saturday Labour Day or Christmas Day. For a conventional five-day employee those Saturdays are normally non-working days, leading to another day off or extra gross-rate salary rather than an automatic nationwide Monday closure. Shift patterns can produce different results.

Employment Act scenario matrix

These are retrieval summaries, not a payroll calculator. MOM's detailed guide distinguishes basic from gross rate and explains absence, unpaid leave, overtime and time-off-in-lieu rules. Its specific FAQ confirms the different rest-day and non-working-day treatments. An answer must collect the employee's coverage, schedule and actual hours before producing a monetary figure.

Important observances outside the recurring public-holiday list

This is illustrative, not exhaustive. “No” means the observance is not one of the recurring 11 public-holiday days; it does not mean that the festival is minor, that employers cannot accommodate it, or that no special closure or event occurs. It also does not preclude an additional holiday being separately declared for another reason in a particular year. Use festivals and public holidays for cultural context and the official annual calendar for legal dates.