Holidays
Chinese New Year 2027 in Singapore: Public Holidays
Singapore gazettes two public holidays for Chinese New Year, and in 2027 both landed on a weekend. The Monday that replaces the Sunday turns three calendar days into one working day off.
The days, as the instrument lists them
Each row is a date the source document names. A substitute is not a holiday in its own right — it exists because another day of the festival fell on a rest day.
- Days named
- 2
- In the instrument itself, before any substitution
- Working days lost
- 1
- Days off the job, not days on a calendar
- Longest run
- 3
- February 6 to February 8
| Date | Day | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| February 6 | Saturday | Statutory holiday |
| February 7 | Sunday | Statutory holiday |
| February 8 | Monday | Substitute(stands in for February 7) |
Where the difference comes from
The Employment Act gives an employee two gazetted days for the festival. When a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday after becomes a public holiday in its place. The second day in 2027 is Sunday 7 February, so the Ministry of Manpower's list reads 6, 7 and 8 February.
Which means the working week loses Monday and nothing else. Two of the three dates were a weekend the office would have been shut for anyway. Had 6 February fallen midweek, the same rule would have cost two working days instead of one.
The same Saturday, six answers
6 February 2027 is a Saturday in all six places. What happens when a holiday lands on a weekend is a local rule, and the rules disagree: the spread below runs from nothing to five working days.
| Jurisdiction | Longest run | Working days lost |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore | 3 | 1 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1 |
| Hong Kong, China | 4 | 2 |
| Taiwan, China | 7 | 5 |
| the Philippines | 2 | 0 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1 |
Source
Ministry of Manpower, Public Holidays for 2027 · Published June 18
https://www.mom.gov.sg/newsroom/press-releases/2026/0618-public-holidays-for-2027
Dates are transcribed from the instrument named above, not from a commercial calendar. Nothing here is projected from the year before.
What people ask about this date
Is 8 February 2027 a public holiday in Singapore?
Yes. It is the substitute for 7 February, which is a Sunday. The Employment Act provides that when a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a public holiday instead.
How many working days does the festival cost in Singapore in 2027?
One. Of the three holiday dates, 6 and 7 February are a Saturday and a Sunday, so only Monday 8 February comes out of the working week.