Hong Kong public holidays 2026
Hong Kong has 17 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 247 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
元旦新年 |
Nationwide |
| 17 Feb | Tuesday | Lunar New Year
農曆年初一 |
Nationwide |
| 18 Feb | Wednesday | Second day of Lunar New Year
農曆年初二 |
Nationwide |
| 19 Feb | Thursday | Third day of Lunar New Year
農曆年初三 |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
耶穌受難節 |
Nationwide |
| 4 Apr | Saturday rest day | Holy Saturday
耶穌受難節翌日 |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Ching Ming Festival
清明節 |
Nationwide |
| 7 Apr | Tuesday | Easter Monday
復活節星期一 |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
勞動節 |
Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Buddha's Birthday
佛誕 |
Nationwide |
| 19 Jun | Friday | Dragon Boat Festival
端午節 |
Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Wednesday | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
香港特別行政區成立紀念日 |
Nationwide |
| 26 Sep | Saturday rest day | Day following the Mid-Autumn Festival
中秋節翌日 |
Nationwide |
| 1 Oct | Thursday | National Day
中華人民共和國國慶日 |
Nationwide |
| 19 Oct | Monday | Chung Yeung Festival
重陽節 |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
聖誕節 |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | Boxing Day
聖誕節翌日 |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 3 holidays
March
April 4 holidays
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 1 holiday
August
September 1 holiday
October 2 holidays
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 136 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 14 | 247 | 1,976 |
What the numbers say about Hong Kong in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Hong Kong. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: Holy Saturday (4 Apr), Day following the Mid-Autumn Festival (26 Sep), Boxing Day (26 Dec). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and February the shortest with 17. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 59 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 17, Hong Kong sits above the middle of the range, around the 91st percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 7 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 3 April to 7 April (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Ching Ming Festival, Easter Monday). There are also 4 bridge days: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2026.