Vietnam public holidays (2026 and 2027)

How many public holidays does Vietnam have?

Vietnam has 12 paid public-holiday days a year from 2026. Eleven of them are set out in the Labour Code: New Year's Day (1 day), Lunar New Year or Tết (5 days), Hung Kings Commemoration Day (1 day), Reunification Day (1 day), International Labour Day (1 day) and National Day (2 days). The twelfth is Vietnam Culture Day on 24 November, added by National Assembly Resolution 28/2026/QH16 and in force since 1 July 2026.12

That headline count is modest, but in practice the Government routinely arranges "long weekends" around the big holidays by swapping working days, so a single Tết or National Day holiday turns into a week or more off work. Those swaps rearrange the calendar; they do not add to the 12 statutory days.5

The statutory count is the same in 2026 and 2027. These paid holidays sit on top of an employee's separate paid annual leave in Vietnam and the other statutory employee benefits an employer funds. The full list of holidays lives in Article 112 of the Vietnam Labour Code.

What are the public holidays in Vietnam in 2026?

Vietnam's 2026 public holidays are New Year's Day (1 January), Lunar New Year or Tết (16–20 February), Hung Kings Commemoration Day (26 April), Reunification Day (30 April), International Labour Day (1 May), National Day (1–2 September) and Vietnam Culture Day (24 November) — 12 paid days in all. The table gives the exact dates.1

Where a holiday falls on a weekly rest day the Labour Code grants an automatic make-up day on the next working day, which is why Hung Kings Day (a Sunday in 2026) carries a Monday off.1

Is 24 November a public holiday in Vietnam?

Yes. Since 2026, 24 November is Vietnam Culture Day (Ngày Văn hóa Việt Nam), a paid public holiday for all employees under National Assembly Resolution 28/2026/QH16, which took effect on 1 July 2026. The resolution states that on 24 November every year workers are off work on full pay, so this is a permanent, recurring entitlement — not a one-off 2026 arrangement.24

Culture Day is the first new national paid holiday Vietnam has added in years, and it lifts the headline count from 11 to 12. One technical point worth knowing: the Labour Code's Article 112 list has not yet been formally amended to insert 24 November — that amendment is still pending — but the paid day off is already legally in force through the resolution. In 2026 the day off is Tuesday 24 November, with no working-day swap; in 2027 it falls on Wednesday 24 November.2

Why do some Vietnam holidays become week-long breaks?

Two rules stretch the statutory days into longer breaks, and it matters to keep them apart from the holiday count itself. First, the Labour Code grants an automatic make-up day when a holiday lands on an employee's weekly rest day. Second, each year the Prime Minister fixes the exact days for the Tết and National Day holidays and the Government arranges discretionary "long weekends" by swapping an adjoining working day for a weekend day.53

In 2026, for example, those arrangements produced a Tết break of about nine continuous days (14–22 February), a roughly five-day National Day break (29 August – 2 September) and a four-day stretch around Reunification and Labour Day (30 April – 3 May). Some reports add every weekend and make-up day together to claim "about 26 days off"; that figure is real as time away from the desk, but it is not 26 statutory holidays — the statutory count stays at 12.5

For private employers this matters at Tết in particular: you may choose how to split the five statutory Tết days around New Year's Eve — commonly one day before plus four after, or two before plus three after — provided you announce the schedule to staff in advance.1

What are the public holidays in Vietnam in 2027, and when is Tết?

Vietnam's Government has already set the main 2027 break arrangements. On 2 October 2026, Government Office Dispatch No. 10065/VPCP-KGVX confirmed the days off for the 2027 Lunar New Year (Tết) and National Day. Lunar New Year 2027 — the Year of the Goat (Đinh Mùi) — begins on Saturday 6 February 2027, and the official Tết break runs seven consecutive days, from Thursday 4 February to Wednesday 10 February 2027 (the five statutory Tết days plus the adjoining weekend). A longer break was discussed in 2026, but the Government settled on the seven-day arrangement.3

National Day 2027 gives a four-day break, from Thursday 2 September to Sunday 5 September 2027 — the two statutory National Day holidays (2–3 September) plus the weekend. The remaining 2027 dates follow from the Labour Code and the calendar, but the discretionary long-weekend swaps for Hung Kings Day and the 30 April–1 May period had not yet been announced as of October 2026, so they are marked "to be confirmed" below.31

Do foreign employees in Vietnam get extra holidays?

Yes. On top of Vietnam's 12 paid public holidays, a foreign employee working in Vietnam is entitled to one extra paid day for their own country's traditional new-year day and one for their own country's national day — two additional days a year, under Article 112 of the Labour Code.1

The same Vietnamese holiday calendar otherwise applies to local and foreign staff alike. If you are sponsoring an expatriate, the holiday entitlement is one more line to budget alongside the work-permit and payroll steps; our labour-law guide and the HR compliance calendar cover the rest of the annual cycle.

Do employees get paid extra for working on a public holiday?

A public holiday in Vietnam is a paid day off: the employee receives their normal wage for the day without working. If an employee actually works on a public holiday, the Labour Code requires overtime pay of at least 300% of the normal hourly wage — and that 300% is on top of the holiday's own paid wage, so a holiday worked is effectively paid at four times the normal rate.1

For context, overtime on an ordinary working day is paid at a minimum of 150% and on a weekly rest day at 200%; the 300% holiday rate is the highest band. Night work carries further premiums. The full set of rates, and how they stack, is in the working hours and overtime guide.1

Holiday pay is a national entitlement and does not vary by province, unlike the regional minimum wage. Separately, many employers pay a 13th-month salary or Tết bonus before Lunar New Year; that is contractual rather than a statutory holiday payment, and is covered in the 13th-month salary and Tết bonus guide.

How EOR Vietnam applies the holiday calendar to payroll

As your employer of record, EOR Vietnam is the legal employer of your Vietnam-based staff, so it applies this public-holiday calendar for you: it pays the 12 statutory holidays at full wage, applies the automatic make-up days, follows the Government's annual Tết and National Day arrangements, grants foreign employees their two extra home-country days, and calculates the 300% holiday-overtime rate on any day a holiday is actually worked.1

Because holiday pay is already part of an employee's salary and statutory cost, it does not change the service fee. For a Vietnamese national, EOR Vietnam's fee is a flat US$149 per employee per month, whatever the salary and however the holidays fall, with no setup, onboarding, offboarding, contract or payslip fees (as of October 2026). Salary and statutory contributions are passed through at cost. A foreign national who needs a Vietnamese work permit is quoted separately. A refundable security deposit equal to two months of the employee's employment cost — gross salary plus statutory employer contributions — is held for the engagement and returned at the end, less any unpaid amounts.

For how that fee sits on top of salary and the roughly 23.5% employer on-cost, see Vietnam payroll and employer costs or the itemised EOR Vietnam cost breakdown. You can also browse all our Vietnam employer guides.