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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Hong Kong, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
The next public holiday in Hong Kong is
Chinese Mid-Autumn
In 34 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Asia/Hong_Kong
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- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Hong Kong’s closures removed and every excluded day named.
- Find the next business day Add or subtract N working days from a date, skipping weekends and closures — for filing and settlement dates.
- Discover long weekends Every run of consecutive days off in a year, and the bridge days worth taking. Pick Hong Kong from the list.
- Compare with your other markets Hong Kong beside the rest — the weeks that work everywhere, and which dates are still estimates.
Hong Kong public holidays in 2026
17 national closures in 2026. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Verified |
| 17 February 2026 | Chinese New Year Day 1 expected | Compiled |
| 18 February 2026 | Chinese New Year Day 2 expected | Compiled |
| 19 February 2026 | Chinese New Year Day 3 expected | Compiled |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 4 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 6 April 2026 | Easter Monday expected | Verified |
| 7 April 2026 | Qingming Festival expected | Compiled |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day expected | Verified |
| 25 May 2026 | Buddha's Birthday expected | Compiled |
| 19 June 2026 | Tuen Ng Festival expected | Compiled |
| 1 July 2026 | Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day expected | Verified |
| 26 September 2026 | Chinese Mid-Autumn expected | Compiled |
| 1 October 2026 | National Day expected | Verified |
| 18 October 2026 | Chung Yeung Festival expected | Compiled |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
| 26 December 2026 | Boxing Day expected | Verified |
The shape of Hong Kong’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
17 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Hong Kong, 2026
10 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. National closures only, computed on a Monday–Friday week — an assumption, not something the corpus records for this jurisdiction.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 14 Feb – 19 Feb | 6 days | Chinese New Year Day 1, Chinese New Year Day 2, Chinese New Year Day 3 | take Mon 16 Feb |
| 17 Feb – 19 Feb | 3 days | Chinese New Year Day 1, Chinese New Year Day 2, Chinese New Year Day 3 | no leave needed |
| 17 Feb – 22 Feb | 6 days | Chinese New Year Day 1, Chinese New Year Day 2, Chinese New Year Day 3 | take Fri 20 Feb |
| 3 Apr – 7 Apr | 5 days | Good Friday, Easter Monday, Qingming Festival | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 23 May – 25 May | 3 days | Buddha's Birthday | no leave needed |
| 19 Jun – 21 Jun | 3 days | Tuen Ng Festival | no leave needed |
| 1 Oct – 4 Oct | 4 days | National Day | take Fri 2 Oct |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day, Boxing Day | no leave needed |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Hong Kong, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory closures | 17 | 17 verified | 2026-08-03 | |
| Religious observances | 10 | 10 verified | 2026-08-03 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 17 | 17 verified | 2026-08-03 | |
| School terms and breaks | 24 | — | — | 4 calendars |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XHKG (51) |
| Elections | 8 | — | — | |
| Announcements | 2 | — | — |
Not held for Hong Kong: Statutory weekly rest, Optional and restricted days, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, Subdivision calendars, Tax deadlines. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
3 named documents, issued by 3 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region internal python-holidays maintainers
From the Bulletin
What the corpus turned up about Hong Kong — published when there is something, and silent when there is not.
How Hong Kong keeps time
| Observances | 17 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 17 verified · 0 corroborated · 0 compiled, from 1 named source |
| Languages | English, Chinese |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XHKG |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-03 |
The Hong Kong dossier
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All 17 dated closures here were read from the instrument itself — the gazette, statute or order — across 1 named source.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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