Plan · Tue 27 Oct 2026
Taiwan long weekends 2027: the official holiday planner
Taiwan's Directorate-General of Personnel Administration publishes the government office calendar a year ahead: 121 days off in 2027 and nine breaks of three days or more, with no make-up working Saturdays. Every break, the two single midweek festivals, what closes, and where the country travels.
The short answer: The Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, the DGPA, publishes Taiwan's government office calendar in full and in advance, and it is the spine every other plan in 2027 hangs off. As published, 2027 carries 121 days off and nine breaks of three days or more, and no make-up working Saturdays at all. Government offices close on the calendar; shops, restaurants and attractions trade through it. The visitor's real issues are the same three every break: public counters shut, high speed rail and domestic flights sell out, and scenic area hotels price at their peak. This page lists every break from the DGPA calendar, then the two famous festivals that in 2027 fall midweek and give only a single day.
The nine breaks
| Break | Dates | Days | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founding Day (New Year's Day) | Friday 1 to Sunday 3 January 2027 | 3 | The year opens with a three day weekend. Taipei holds its New Year flag raising ceremony in front of the Presidential Office Building. |
| Lunar New Year | Thursday 4 to Wednesday 10 February 2027 | 7 | The longest break of the year. New Year's Eve is Friday 5 February and Lunar New Year's Day Saturday 6 February; the first two festival days fall on a weekend, so Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 February are compensatory days. The peak domestic travel period of the year. |
| Peace Memorial Day | Saturday 27 February to Monday 1 March 2027 | 3 | Peace Memorial Day, 28 February, falls on a Sunday, so Monday 1 March is the compensatory day. A solemn commemoration, centred on 228 Peace Memorial Park in Taipei, inside a spring long weekend that also sits inside the lantern season. |
| Children's Day and Tomb Sweeping Day | Saturday 3 to Tuesday 6 April 2027 | 4 | Children's Day, Sunday 4 April, and Tomb Sweeping Day on the Qingming solar term, Monday 5 April, combine, with a compensatory day on Tuesday 6 April. A major homecoming period: families travel to ancestral graves and columbaria, and roads to cemeteries are congested. |
| Labour Day | Friday 30 April to Sunday 2 May 2027 | 3 | Labour Day, Saturday 1 May, is a holiday for private sector workers, with the rest day taken on Friday 30 April. Government offices do not close for Labour Day; banks, schools and most companies do. |
| National Day (Double Tenth) | Saturday 9 to Monday 11 October 2027 | 3 | National Day itself is Sunday 10 October, with Monday 11 October compensatory. Ceremonies and fireworks centre on Taipei, and autumn weather makes it a heavy travel weekend. |
| Taiwan Retrocession Day | Saturday 23 to Monday 25 October 2027 | 3 | Retrocession Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Kuningtou fall on Monday 25 October, closing a three day weekend at the height of the autumn season. |
| Constitution Day | Friday 24 to Sunday 26 December 2027 | 3 | Constitution Day, Saturday 25 December, is compensated on Friday 24 December. A quiet holiday at home and a travel weekend in practice. |
| Year end into 2028 | Friday 31 December 2027 to Sunday 2 January 2028 | 3 | Founding Day 2028 falls on Saturday 1 January, so Friday 31 December 2027 is a compensatory day, and the year ends as it began, with a three day break. |
The single days: plan leave around them, or enjoy them in place
Two of Taiwan's great festivals give only one day in 2027. Dragon Boat Festival falls on Wednesday 9 June, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, with racing on rivers and harbours across Taiwan and zongzi rice dumplings everywhere, but no long weekend around it. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Wednesday 15 September, a single day of barbecues, mooncakes and family gatherings. Teachers' Day, Tuesday 28 September, is likewise a single day. A visitor already in Taiwan loses nothing on these dates: the festivals happen in place, on the day. A resident wanting a trip out of them needs leave on the adjoining days, and half the country has the same idea.
What closes, and what does not
The DGPA calendar governs government offices, so the closures to plan around are public counters: household registration, immigration and agency services, and the public facing parts of government, with banks following the official calendar closely. Schools follow the calendar with their own term arrangements, and police, fire, coast guard, medical and other shift based services adjust internally rather than closing. Beyond that, Taiwan stays open: shops, malls, restaurants, museums and attractions trade through the breaks, and are busiest exactly when offices are shut. The private sector follows the Labour Standards Act rather than the office calendar word for word, which is why Labour Day reads differently from the rest of the table.
What sells out, and where Taiwan goes
Transport is the pressure point of every break. High speed rail and Taiwan Railways intercity services sell out at the start and end of Lunar New Year first, then the April and October breaks, and domestic flights to Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and the east coast follow. Hotels in scenic areas, Alishan, Sun Moon Lake, Kenting, the east coast and Penghu in season, price at their annual peak on the same weekends. The direction of travel is predictable: out of the cities to family hometowns and scenic counties at the start of a break, back at the end, with Taipei itself noticeably quieter in the middle of Lunar New Year and at its most pleasant for a visitor who has no family obligations. The compensatory system explains the shape of it all: when a holiday falls on a Saturday, the Friday before becomes the day off, and when it falls on a Sunday, the Monday after does, which is how single dates turn into the nine breaks above without a single make-up working Saturday in the year.
One crossover worth a visitor's attention: the Peace Memorial break, 27 February to 1 March, falls inside the Taiwan Lantern Festival in Miaoli and the Taipei and New Taipei lantern runs, so the lantern season's busiest nights and the month's hardest train bookings are the same weekend. Plan that one earliest of all. The full set of holiday records is under national holidays and long weekends.
Sources: Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, the 2027 government office calendar (ROC year 116), published at dgpa.gov.tw, for every date, compensatory day and the holiday rules, including the memorial days and festivals act extracts published with the calendar; National Immigration Agency news reporting of the DGPA announcement, for the totals of 121 days off and nine long weekends, the Lunar New Year compensatory days on 9 and 10 February, and the year end compensatory day on 31 December 2027; the holiday records in our calendar, each sourced to the DGPA calendar. Checked 27 October 2026.
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