Closure expectation
HighChinese New Year is modeled as a public holiday in Singapore; expect office, bank, school, and service-hour changes unless a local exception applies.
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Holiday guide
Global holiday guide rooted in Singapore's calendar, observed nationwide.
Next occurrence
February 6, 2027
Saturday · Asia/Singapore
Next occurrence
February 6, 2027
Saturday
Observed in
3 countries
Current holiday dataset
Primary context
Singapore
Public
Planning timezone
Asia/Singapore
UTC+08:00
Next: February 6, 2027 (Saturday)
Lunar New Year pages matter because the holiday is both culturally expansive and calendar-complex, with reunion travel, school breaks, red-envelope customs, and temple visits all tied to a movable Gregorian date. In the current dataset this holiday appears in 3 country calendars, with the strongest concentration in Asia (2), America (1).
Last updated recently. Dates draw from the curated holiday catalog (tracked window 2025-2027); cultural context comes from the source-cited curation library when an entry exists.
Local statutory mode, country coverage, date rule, timezone spread, and related planning context for Chinese New Year.
Primary calendar
Singapore · Public
Cultural family
East Asian lunar festival · Southeast Asia
Observed scope
Nationwide observance
Coverage reach
3 countries in the current holiday dataset
Timezone context
Asia/Singapore (UTC+08:00)
Next date signal
February 6, 2027 · Saturday
Forward window
2025: January 29, 2025 · 2025: January 30, 2025 · 2026: February 17, 2026 · 2026: February 18, 2026
Related planning set
Vesak Day · Hari Raya Haji · New Year's Day
Regional spread
Asia 2 · America 1
Reference posture
5 source-cited dossier references plus catalog dates
The rows below are built from this holiday's actual route, country, local-name, date, rule, timezone, observed-country, and adjacent-calendar records. They make Chinese New Year in Singapore distinct from holidays with similar names or the same season.
Route identity
chinese-new-year · Chinese New Year · Singapore · SG
Local name and scope
Chinese New Year · Public · nationwide
Rule and family
East Asian lunar festival · Southeast Asia · lunar / lunisolar
Country/date clusters
February 6, 2027 (3)
Observed type mix
Public: 3
Forward date window
2027: February 6, 2027 (Saturday) · 2027: February 8, 2027 (Monday)
Timezone anchor
Asia/Singapore · Asia/Singapore (UTC+08:00)
Calendar neighbors
previous: New Year's Day (36 days before) · next: Hari Raya Puasa (32 days after)
Source depth
5 curated source citations plus catalog dates
The practical risk is not just the date. Chinese New Year can affect closure expectations, bridge-day leave, country-specific substitutions, cross-border date drift, and timezone reminders differently in each jurisdiction.
Closure expectation
HighChinese New Year is modeled as a public holiday in Singapore; expect office, bank, school, and service-hour changes unless a local exception applies.
Date confidence
Catalog onlyChinese New Year uses tracked catalog rows for the visible forward window. lunar / lunisolar holidays stay inside the source window when extrapolation would be risky.
Bridge-day pressure
SaturdayChinese New Year next falls on February 6, 2027 (Saturday). Weekend-substitution risk is the main scheduling question; check whether local law grants a weekday substitute.
Cross-border drift
AlignedChinese New Year appears in 3 country calendars with 1 next-date cluster. Do not assume every country observes it on the Singapore date.
Timezone handling
Single zoneSingapore has a single primary timezone in this country record, so date-boundary risk is lower than in multi-zone countries.
Source posture
DossierChinese New Year has 5 curated source citations rendered on the page, plus catalog dates and country metadata.
This page keeps the date answer separate from statutory verification. The catalog supplies the tracked date rows; the checkpoints below show which authority, story profile, local specificity, and dossier layer should be reviewed when the holiday affects bookings, payroll, travel, or public-service hours.
Country authority checkpoint
Singapore Ministry of Manpower public holidays; Singapore Holidays Act substitution rules
Story and rule checkpoint
lunar holiday profile: Lunar New Year pages matter because the holiday is both culturally expansive and calendar-complex, with reunion travel, school breaks, red-envelope customs, and temple visits all tied to a movable Gregorian date.
Local specificity checkpoint
Singapore's Chinese New Year operates inside a multi-ethnic public-holiday calendar, where Chinatown events, family visits, and business closures sit alongside separate Malay, Indian, and Christian holidays. Singapore planning usually means checking two statutory days, retail and hawker-center opening patterns, Chinatown crowding, and cross-border travel rather than a week-long national shutdown.
Dossier checkpoint
This is the lunar new year — winter-dated, multi-day family festival. Dragon Boat Festival is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (May or June) — a single-day summer festival. They share Chinese cultural roots and the lunisolar calendar but are distinct events with different practices (reunion dinners and red envelopes vs dragon-boat races and zongzi), different seasons, and different statutory weights (1-2 days vs 1 day in most observing countries). Source citations are rendered in the holiday-specific dossier.
Reference stack
This block separates the local Singapore holiday answer from two common sources of programmatic-calendar confusion: countries that use the same holiday name on different dates, and future rows that are projected from a rule rather than directly tracked.
Cross-border date spread
Chinese New Year lands on the same next observed date across all 3 listed country calendars in this dataset.
Projection reliability
Chinese New Year stays inside the tracked catalog window for forward dates because its lunar / lunisolar rule is not safely extrapolated here. Source posture: 5 curated source citations attached.
Observed next-date clusters
February 6, 2027
3 countries · Philippines, Singapore, Suriname
Observed type mix across countries
Name in Singapore
Chinese New Year
The local catalog name and English display name are both Chinese New Year for Singapore.
Country calendar role
Chinese New Year is recorded in Singapore as a public holiday with nationwide scope.
Other local labels in this holiday family
Reference fields include Chinese New Year's country, date behavior, timezone context, related holidays, and observed-country coverage.
The festival comes from lunisolar calendar traditions in which the new moon opens the first month. In China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, and diaspora communities, that timing anchors reunion dinners, ancestor rites, household cleaning, debt-settling customs, lantern displays, and one of the world's largest recurring travel periods.
Singapore's Chinese New Year operates inside a multi-ethnic public-holiday calendar, where Chinatown events, family visits, and business closures sit alongside separate Malay, Indian, and Christian holidays.
Its planning footprint is broader than a single public holiday: offices may close for several days, transport systems peak before and after the official date, and cross-border teams often need to account for different local names and substitution rules.
Chinese New Year is marked as a nationwide observance in the current Singapore holiday data.
Singapore planning usually means checking two statutory days, retail and hawker-center opening patterns, Chinatown crowding, and cross-border travel rather than a week-long national shutdown.
Chinese New Year follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar tradition, so the Gregorian date changes from year to year. In the tracked data window, the dates land on 2025: January 29, 2025: January 30, 2026: February 17, 2026: February 18, 2027: February 6, 2027: February 8.
Because Chinese New Year follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves significantly each year and statutory recognition often spans several days, so reading the official block is more useful than the headline date.
The current static build keeps the tracked 2025-2027 date window online for curated holiday detail pages.
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | January 29, 2025 | Wednesday |
| 2025 | January 30, 2025 | Thursday |
| 2026 | February 17, 2026 | Tuesday |
| 2026 | February 18, 2026 | Wednesday |
| 2027 | February 6, 2027 | Saturday |
| 2027 | February 8, 2027 | Monday |
Rows below come straight from the tracked catalog window (2025-2027). The weekday distribution controls long-weekend math each year.
| Year | Date | Weekday | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | February 6, 2027 | Saturday | Catalog |
| 2027 | February 8, 2027 | Monday | Catalog |
Seasonal placement
Chinese New Year next lands in the winter / year-boundary planning band for Singapore. That matters for school terms, travel season, and whether the holiday sits near year-end, spring religious calendars, summer travel, or autumn civic cycles.
Weekday distribution in this window
Chinese New Year sits inside the East Asian lunisolar tradition, which means its Gregorian date moves and its meaning is read through ancestor remembrance, family reunion travel, and seasonal food customs rather than fixed-date civic ceremony.
Searches for Chinese New Year usually want the moving Gregorian date, the official statutory holiday block in Singapore, and travel-window awareness because reunion travel reshapes transport for several days.
Cultural family
East Asian lunar festival
Origin region: Southeast Asia
Statutory mode
Chinese New Year is listed as a public holiday in Singapore (nationwide), which usually means government offices, banks, and most schools close.
Differentiates from neighbors
This is the lunar new year — winter-dated, multi-day family festival. Dragon Boat Festival is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (May or June) — a single-day summer festival. They share Chinese cultural roots and the lunisolar calendar but are distinct events with different practices (reunion dinners and red envelopes vs dragon-boat races and zongzi), different seasons, and different statutory weights (1-2 days vs 1 day in most observing countries).
Religious / civic / cultural context
Chinese New Year as observed in Southeast Asia and global diaspora communities preserves the core mainland customs (reunion dinner, hongbao, lion dances, zodiac animals) but is filtered through local multi-ethnic civic frameworks. Singapore's Chingay parade and Malaysia's open-house tradition are post-colonial inventions that frame CNY as one of several co-equal national festivals (alongside Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas, and Vesak). The festival's religious dimension blends Confucian ancestor reverence, Buddhist temple visits, and Taoist folk practice — strictly speaking it is cultural rather than religious, which is why officially secular and Muslim-majority states still grant it statutory recognition.
Date rule
Chinese New Year is the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The Gregorian date varies between January 21 and February 20. Outside mainland China and Taiwan, the public-holiday block is typically 1-2 days (e.g. Singapore observes the first two days; the Philippines observes day 1 only).
Planning impact
In Singapore and Malaysia, retail and F&B outlets close for 1-2 days; Chinatown precincts (e.g. Singapore's Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur's Petaling Street) draw heavy tourism around the eve. Cross-border travel between Singapore and Johor Bahru, and between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, surges during the eve and the first day. Stock exchanges (SGX, Bursa Malaysia, HKEX) close for the statutory days.
Observance mode by jurisdiction
Country-specific behavior
Only countries whose pattern departs from the headline observance rule are listed.
Singapore
First two days are public holidays; if either falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a substitute holiday under the Holidays Act.
Malaysia
First two days are federal public holidays; Kelantan and Terengganu observe day 1 only. Open-house tradition (visiting friends of all ethnicities) is a defining national-cohesion practice.
Philippines
Day 1 only is a special non-working public holiday by Presidential Proclamation (since 2012); Manila Chinatown (Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world) hosts the largest celebrations.
Indonesia
Day 1 (Imlek) is a national public holiday since 2003 (overturning Suharto-era restrictions); a 'cuti bersama' joint leave day is often added by government decree.
United States
Not a federal holiday. California (since 2022) recognizes it as a state holiday — schools and state offices are not required to close.
Sources
As a East Asian lunar festival sitting in the Singapore calendar, Chinese New Year matters for planning because office, bank, and school closures stack on the same day. The next tracked occurrence is February 6, 2027 (Saturday), which controls long-weekend math for that year.
Chinese New Year also appears in other country calendars such as Philippines, Singapore, and Suriname. Recorded next dates include Philippines on February 6, 2027, Singapore on February 6, 2027, and Suriname on February 6, 2027 — slight differences across borders are common because each country can apply weekend-substitution or regional-only rules to the same nominal holiday.
Singapore plans this holiday primarily around Asia/Singapore. Because Chinese New Year follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves significantly each year and statutory recognition often spans several days, so reading the official block is more useful than the headline date. Teams often line Chinese New Year up with Vesak Day, Hari Raya Haji, and New Year's Day when blocking off the broader holiday window.
Holiday planning depth
The closest observed holidays before and after Chinese New Year in the Singaporecalendar show the local scheduling neighborhood for 2027.
Previous holiday
New Year's Day
January 1, 2027 · Public
36 days before Chinese New Year.
Next holiday
Hari Raya Puasa
March 10, 2027 · Public
32 days after Chinese New Year.
These are the closest holidays around Chinese New Year in the Singaporecalendar for 2027. They help separate this guide from holidays in the same season or religious/civic family.
Hari Raya Puasa
March 10, 2027 · Public
32 days after Chinese New Year.
New Year's Day
January 1, 2027 · Public
36 days before Chinese New Year.
Good Friday
March 26, 2027 · Public
48 days after Chinese New Year.
Labour Day
May 1, 2027 · Public
84 days after Chinese New Year.
Hari Raya Haji (Tentative Date)
May 17, 2027 · Public
100 days after Chinese New Year.
National Day
August 9, 2027 · Public
184 days after Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year appears in 3 country calendars in the current dataset.
Asia
2 countries
America
1 country
Chinese New Year reads differently across the 3 listed jurisdictions: a East Asian lunar festival can carry one statutory weight in Singapore and another in neighboring countries that copied the date but kept different observance rules.
| Country | Next date | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Philippines | February 6, 2027 | Public |
| Singapore | February 6, 2027 | Public |
| Suriname | February 6, 2027 | Public |
Related links are selected from the same country calendar first, with family matches such as Easter-cycle or lunisolar festivals preferred before nearby-date filler.
Vesak Day
May 12, 2025 · Public
East Asian lunar festival
See 2025 calendar
Hari Raya Haji
June 7, 2025 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2025 calendar
New Year's Day
January 1, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
Hari Raya Puasa
March 20, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
Open curated guide
Good Friday
April 3, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
Yes — Chinese New Year is listed as a public holiday in Singapore on a nationwide basis.
In 2027, Chinese New Year in Singapore falls on February 6, 2027 (Saturday). Subsequent dates: 2027 February 8, 2027.
Chinese New Year follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar tradition, so the Gregorian date changes from year to year. In the tracked data window, the dates land on 2025: January 29, 2025: January 30, 2026: February 17, 2026: February 18, 2027: February 6, 2027: February 8. Because Chinese New Year follows a lunar or lunisolar calendar, the Gregorian date moves significantly each year and statutory recognition often spans several days, so reading the official block is more useful than the headline date.
Chinese New Year is listed as a public holiday in Singapore (nationwide), which usually means government offices, banks, and most schools close. It reads as a East Asian lunar festival with origins tied to Southeast Asia.
The local catalog name and English display name are both Chinese New Year for Singapore.
Chinese New Year appears in 3 country calendars in the current dataset, including Philippines, Singapore, Suriname.
Singapore uses Asia/Singapore (UTC+08:00) for local planning.
Chinese New Year as observed in Southeast Asia and global diaspora communities preserves the core mainland customs (reunion dinner, hongbao, lion dances, zodiac animals) but is filtered through local multi-ethnic civic frameworks. Singapore's Chingay parade and Malaysia's open-house tradition are post-colonial inventions that frame CNY as one of several co-equal national festivals (alongside Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas, and Vesak). The festival's religious dimension blends Confucian ancestor reverence, Buddhist temple visits, and Taoist folk practice — strictly speaking it is cultural rather than religious, which is why officially secular and Muslim-majority states still grant it statutory recognition. In Singapore and Malaysia, retail and F&B outlets close for 1-2 days; Chinatown precincts (e.g. Singapore's Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur's Petaling Street) draw heavy tourism around the eve. Cross-border travel between Singapore and Johor Bahru, and between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, surges during the eve and the first day. Stock exchanges (SGX, Bursa Malaysia, HKEX) close for the statutory days.
This is the lunar new year — winter-dated, multi-day family festival. Dragon Boat Festival is the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (May or June) — a single-day summer festival. They share Chinese cultural roots and the lunisolar calendar but are distinct events with different practices (reunion dinners and red envelopes vs dragon-boat races and zongzi), different seasons, and different statutory weights (1-2 days vs 1 day in most observing countries).
Chinese New Year is often compared with Vesak Day, Hari Raya Haji, New Year's Day on the Singapore calendar.