ROC Year 107 (2018) Taiwan-Penghu-Kinmen-Matsu Consecutive Holiday Calendar (Lunar New Year, Qingming, Dragon Boat, and Mid-Autumn Consecutive Holidays)

The Directorate-General of Personnel Administration of the Executive Yuan of the ROC announced the ROC year 107 (2018) administrative agency office calendar, with a total of 116 holidays this year (117 for laborers), the same as years 105 and 106, and 6 consecutive holidays of 3 days or more, with the longest consecutive holiday being the 6-day spring break.

There are 6 consecutive holidays of 3 days or more: the ROC Founding Memorial Day and New Year’s Day (3 days total), Lunar New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival (6 days total), Children’s Day and National Tomb-Sweeping Day (5 days total, also called the Qingming consecutive holiday), Dragon Boat Festival (3 days total), Mid-Autumn Festival (3 days total), and the year-end New Year’s Day countdown (4 days total).

The editor suggests everyone arrange this year’s consecutive holiday travel as early as possible, otherwise buying tickets at the last minute (quickly search and book tickets) and hotel reservations (accommodation booking) is as hard as reaching the sky, and in the end you can only watch others travel everywhere on Facebook! I hope everyone can make good use of these consecutive holidays for various commemorative days and festivals, allowing yourself to enjoy life more amid the tight, busy work.

ROC Year 107 (2018) Consecutive Holiday Schedule for Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu Regions:

1. Founding Memorial Day and New Year’s Day (New Year’s Eve countdown): December 30, 2017 to January 1, 2018, 3 days total.
2. Lunar New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival (Lunar New Year): February 15 to February 20, 2018, 6 days total.
3. Children’s Day and National Tomb-Sweeping Day (Qingming Festival): April 4 to April 8, 2018, 5 days total.

• April 4 Children’s Day has one day off, April 5 National Tomb-Sweeping Day has one day off, then Friday is a flexible day off, making a total of five consecutive days off; March 31 (Saturday) requires a make-up workday.

4. Dragon Boat Festival (lunar May 5): June 16 (Saturday) to June 18 (Monday), 2018, 3 days total.
5. Mid-Autumn Festival: September 22 (Saturday) to September 24 (Monday), 2018, 3 days total.
6. ROC Year 108 Founding Memorial Day and New Year’s Day (New Year’s Eve countdown): December 29 (Saturday), 2018 to January 1 (Tuesday), 2019, 4 days total.

The following chart is designed based on the condition of “consecutive holidays of 3 days or more.” The usual two-day Saturday and Sunday holidays are not specially included, giving the chart better visibility. Including:

The editor finally reminds everyone that this holiday schedule is based on the official civil servant annual calendar, and only schedules make-up days off for “commemorative days” and “major folk festivals.” For example, 2016’s Labor Day (May 1) happened to be a Sunday, so there was no make-up day off. Therefore, the actual holiday schedule should still be based on each company’s schedule and shift table!

Related Details on Days Off, Make-Up Days Off, and Make-Up Workdays:

1. According to Article 5, Paragraph 2, Subparagraph 1 of the “Implementation Measures for Commemorative Days and Festivals,” Children’s Day and National Tomb-Sweeping Day each have one day off; when both fall on the same day, the day before is taken off. The same measures’ Article 5-1 also stipulate that when a day off for a commemorative day or festival falls on a regular day off, a make-up day off shall be given.
2. If the regular day off is Saturday, the make-up day off is on the previous workday; if Sunday, on the next workday. However, when Lunar New Year’s Eve and Spring Festival days off fall on regular days off, the make-up day off is on the next workday.
3. Furthermore, according to Articles 4 and 5 of the “Directions for Adjusting Workdays of Government Agencies” (hereafter the Directions), when a commemorative day or festival day off falls on a Thursday, it shall uniformly be adjusted to a day off, and except in special circumstances, a make-up workday shall be held on the Saturday of the previous week.