Vietnam public holidays

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13 paid days. Statutory base under Labour Code Art. 112 is 11 days: 1 Jan (1 day); Tet Nguyen dan (5 days); 30 Apr (1); 1 May (1); Quoc khanh (2 days = 2 Sep plus one immediately adjacent day chosen annually); Gio To Hung Vuong 10/3 lunar (1). To that we add one substitute day and one newly created holiday, giving 13. TET: Lunar New Year's Day (mung 1) of the Binh Ngo (Horse) year is 17 February 2026. Cong van 9859/VPCP-KGVX (PM's direction, conveyed by the Government Office, 13 Oct 2025) fixes the civil-service arrangement as 1 day before + 4 days after = 16-20 February 2026. Because 14-15 and 21-22 February are weekend days the practical public-sector break runs 14-22 February (9 days), but only 16-20 Feb are the 5 STATUTORY days and only those are listed. Art. 112 lets PRIVATE employers instead choose 2 days before + 3 after, or 3 before + 2 after; a private-sector employer may therefore legitimately observe 15-19 or 14-18 February. QUOC KHANH: the same Cong van selects 1 September 2026 as the adjacent day, so the statutory pair is 1-2 September 2026 (2 Sep is a Wednesday). Cong van 9859 additionally directs a public-sector WORKING-DAY SWAP - Monday 31 August 2026 is taken as leave and made up by working Saturday 22 August 2026 - producing a 5-day run 29 Aug to 2 Sep. 31 August is deliberately EXCLUDED from this list: it is a hoan doi (swap) binding on cadres, civil servants and public employees only, not a statutory paid holiday, and private employers are not required to grant it. GIO TO HUNG VUONG: 10/3 lunar 2026 falls on Sunday 26 April 2026. Labour Code Art. 111(3) provides that where a holiday coincides with the weekly rest day the employee takes a compensatory day off on the next working day, so Monday 27 April 2026 is included as a substitute - Vietnam's substitution rule is genuine mondayisation and this is the only day in 2026 that triggers it. NEW HOLIDAY - VERIFY DOWNSTREAM: Nghi quyet 28/2026/QH16, passed 24 April 2026 (477/489 votes) and in force from 1 July 2026, provides that 24 November each year is Ngay Van hoa Viet Nam and that 'nguoi lao dong duoc nghi lam viec va huong nguyen luong' (employees are off work on full pay). 24 November 2026 is a Tuesday, so no substitution arises. This is the first addition to Vietnam's paid holiday roster since Gio To Hung Vuong; it is created by a National Assembly resolution rather than by the Labour Code, and the Government has been directed to fold it into Art. 112 when the Labour Code amendment goes to the Sixteenth National Assembly's second session (October 2026). Until that amendment passes, the legal basis for 24 Nov is Resolution 28 standing alone - flagged because implementing guidance on overtime multipliers and on interaction with Art. 111(3) substitution for that day has not yet been issued. NOT INCLUDED, and deliberately so: 27 July (Ngay Thuong binh Liet si), 20 October (Vietnamese Women's Day), 20 November (Teachers' Day) and 22 December (Army Day) are commemorative/observance days with no entitlement to paid leave. Also excluded: Art. 112(2) grants FOREIGN employees working in Vietnam one additional day for their country's traditional new year and one for their national day - an entitlement personal to the worker, not a public holiday. No date in this list is provisional: the Vietnamese lunar calendar is computed on UTC+7 and published in advance, so unlike moon-sighting jurisdictions all dates are fixed. ACCESS QUIRK: vanban.chinhphu.vn intermittently returns HTTP 500 maintenance pages and serves signed PDFs rather than inline text; the Tet/Quoc khanh arrangement was cross-confirmed against baochinhphu.vn and xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn, both Government outlets.

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