Vietnam Public Holidays 2028

The Vietnam government typically announces the official holiday arrangements for the following year — including the extended Tet break, any swapped Saturday workdays and the National Day cluster — around October to December. The dates on this page reflect statutory entitlements under the Labor Code plus lunar-calendar conversions for Tet and Hung Kings' Day; they are not yet the Cabinet-approved schedule. For that reason this page lists no make-up workdays at all: any swapped Saturdays will be added once they are actually announced, not guessed in advance.

Once the official 2028 announcement is published — expected in late 2027 — this page will be updated with the exact Tet break length, the make-up workdays and the confirmed National Day arrangement (the Labour Code grants two days: Sep 2 plus Sep 1 or Sep 3, picked by the government each year). Subscribe to our calendar exports or check back after the official notice.

Three of Vietnam's 2028 holidays land on weekend days: New Year's Day (Sat Jan 1), Reunification Day (Sun Apr 30) and National Day (Sat Sep 2). The Labour Code says that when a public holiday coincides with a worker's weekly rest day, the day off moves to the next working day. For Reunification Day this is unambiguous for most workers: the holiday slides past Monday (already Labour Day) and lands on Tuesday May 2, stretching the break to four days (Apr 29–May 2).

For the two Saturday holidays the answer depends on your employer's schedule. Workers on a five-day Mon–Fri week have Saturday as a weekly rest day, so Jan 1 and Sep 2 would normally be compensated on Mon Jan 3 and Mon Sep 4 respectively; workers whose only rest day is Sunday get nothing extra for a Saturday holiday. The annual government notice confirms how these cases are handled, which is why this page marks every weekend-adjacent day off as provisional.

Tet Nguyen Dan 2028 begins on Wednesday, January 26 — unusually early, as the lunar new year cycles back into January. The five statutory days (Tue Jan 25 through Sat Jan 29) already chain into the Sunday, so even before the government adds its customary extension the break is six days long. In practice the announced Tet holiday usually stretches to seven to nine days by swapping nearby Saturdays into workdays; expect that decision around October–December 2027.

Travel advice flips with the early date: the pre-Tet rush (flower markets, hometown exodus, rising fares) now peaks in the third and fourth weeks of January, and most family-run shops close from around Jan 24 until the break ends. Book domestic flights and trains weeks ahead, and expect businesses to be slow to reopen in the first days of February.