About SG Public Holidays

A single, reliable place to check when the Singapore public holidays fall, which ones give you a long weekend, and how to plan your leave around them.

What this site is, and who it is for

SG Public Holidays publishes every gazetted Singapore public holiday, the long weekends those dates happen to create, and a Leave Optimizer that works out which days to book for the most time off. It is written for employees planning annual leave, for the person in an office who gets asked whether a date is a working day, and for anyone checking a year before booking something. The calendar download puts the whole year in your phone or work calendar.

Where the dates come from

• The holidays themselves come from the consolidated public-holiday dataset on data.gov.sg, read live rather than copied into a file, and checked against the list MOM publishes.
• Revisions are announced by MOM press release, not by the dataset, so the press releases are part of what gets checked when a date moves.
• The Sunday rule. When a gazetted holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a public holiday. This site shows that observed Monday as its own dated entry instead of quietly moving the original, because the two are different days for pay and leave purposes.
• The employment rules the guides refer to come from MOM directly: the rest day and hours of work pages, the pay for work on a rest day calculator, and, where a point is contested, MOM's own answers in Parliament.

The long-weekend lists and the Leave Optimizer are not a second list of dates. They are computed from the same gazetted dates plus the weekends of the year, so a correction to a holiday changes the bridges and the ranked leave plan at the same time.

How it is verified, and how often it updates

The feed is fetched at most once a day and the year pages rebuild on an hourly cycle, so a change on data.gov.sg reaches the site within a day of appearing there. This site publishes 2024 to 2027, which is as far as the gazette runs; a future year is not added until MOM has actually gazetted it, because a placeholder year that looks confident and turns out wrong is worse than no page at all. Where a feed and a MOM document disagree, the document wins.

We check the gazette, not only the feed

An open-data feed can lag the gazette it is meant to reflect, which is why the feed is not the last word here. On our sister site SG Hari Raya we found a live example: the same consolidated dataset on data.gov.sg still serves the superseded April 2021 gazette for 2022, and the dates from MOM's October 2021 re-gazette are applied in the data adapter instead. The full account, with the MOM press release, is on that site's about page. The dates involved fall in 2022, a year this site does not publish, so no override is applied here. If one becomes necessary it will be documented on this page rather than made silently.

Editorial independence

Nothing here is a paid placement. There is no sponsored content, no paid inclusion, and no arrangement with any employer, travel operator or brand to be mentioned or recommended. Where advertising runs it is labelled as advertising and kept outside the article, and it has no influence on what a page says.

What this site does not do

It is not MOM, and it does not give legal or HR advice. Whether you are owed holiday pay, an off-in-lieu day or a rest-day rate depends on your contract and your employment status, and only MOM or your employer has the facts of your case. The leave planner assumes a standard five-day working week and cannot know your company's shutdown, blackout dates or approval rules. Treat its output as a shortlist to take to your manager, not as an entitlement.

The Chinese version

Every page here has a Chinese twin at /zh, translated from the same source and reading the same dates rather than maintained as a separate site. If the two ever disagree on a date, that is a bug worth reporting.

Corrections

If a date here looks wrong, say so through the contact page. Include the page you were on, the value it showed and the value you believe is correct, with where you saw it. A correction that arrives with a source can be checked against data.gov.sg or MOM in minutes, and a confirmed one is applied in the data layer every page reads from, so the year page, the long-weekend list, the optimizer and the calendar download all change together.

SG Public Holidays is an independent publisher and is not affiliated with the Government of Singapore or the Ministry of Manpower.