Macau Public Holidays 2028

Macau gazettes its public holidays through an order of the Chief Executive, usually issued the year before. Until the 2028 order is published — expected in late 2027 — the lunar-based festivals (Lunar New Year, Ching Ming, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chong Yeung) and Easter shown here are projected from the astronomical calendar and may shift by a day. This page will be updated as soon as the official notice lands.

Macau publishes 20 public holidays a year, of which 10 are obligatory (mandatory) holidays guaranteed to every employee by the Labour Relations Law. The remaining public holidays — including Good Friday, Buddha's Birthday and Christmas — are observed by the government and most people but are not the mandatory minimum for private workers.

New Year’s Day falls on a Saturday, and the Tung Ng Festival (May 28), National Day (October 1) and Christmas Eve (December 24) all fall on Sundays in 2028. Under Macau’s public administration statute, when a public holiday overlaps a weekly rest day, staff on the general schedule receive a compensatory rest day (補假) on the following working day, and the annual gazette notice publishes the exact dates.

Those compensatory days are set by the 2028 notice, so they are not listed here yet — the table above shows the 20 statutory holiday dates only. Private-sector workers are covered by different rules: the Labour Relations Law deals with obligatory holidays that fall on a rest day, and many employers simply follow the government calendar. Check your own company’s arrangement once the gazette is out.

Lunar New Year comes unusually early in 2028: the first day of the Year of the Monkey falls on Wednesday January 26, with the second and third days on the Thursday and Friday. The three obligatory holidays run straight into the weekend, giving five consecutive days off from January 26 to 30 without touching your leave balance — the longest break of the year.

It is also Macau’s busiest visitor peak. Border crossings, ferries and the Cotai resorts run at capacity across the whole five days, and many local shops close for the first two or three days of the new year. If you are visiting, book transport and hotels well ahead; if you live there, the days right after the break are among the quietest of the year in the tourist districts.

Early May hands out a free four-day break: Labour Day (Monday May 1) and Buddha’s Birthday (Tuesday May 2) fall back to back and attach to the weekend of April 29–30. October offers a similar trick — National Day gives a three-day weekend from September 30, and a single day of leave on Tuesday October 3 bridges it to the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival (Wednesday October 4) for five days off.

December is the richest stretch of the year: four holidays in six days. SAR Establishment Day (Wed Dec 20) and the Winter Solstice (Thu Dec 21) start the run, Christmas Eve falls on the Sunday and Christmas Day on the Monday. One day of leave on Friday December 22 joins everything into a six-day break from December 20 to 25 — and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Fri Dec 8) has already given a three-day weekend two weeks earlier.