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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Singapore

The list of Singapore bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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24 Apr 2008 (The Straits Times + the NFC) At a recent media conference, Family Council chairman, Lim Soon Hock, announced that May 24 had been designated "Family Day Out", and that he would push for the fourth Saturday of May a new public holiday to celebrate the family. • 27 Mar 2008 (Private communication from the Hindu Endowments Board-Singapore) The Hindu Endowments Board has revised the date for Singapore's 2008 Deepavali public holiday, from Tuesday, October 28, to Monday, October 27. • 25 Feb 2008 (Singapore Ministry of Manpower-MOM) The Singapore Ministry of Manpower has released its tentative list of 2009 public holidays in Singapore. The published listing confirms all our dates, with the exception of Deepevali 2009, which MOM has listed almost a month later than ours. We are in direct contact with MOM and will post again as soon as we have something to report. • 11 Apr 2003 (Singapore Ministry of Manpower) In a press release on public holidays for 2003, released on 4 March 2002, the Ministry announced that Deepavali would fall on 23 October 2003 (Thursday) based on calculations, but the actual date for Deepavali in 2003 is now known to be 24 October 2003 (Friday) instead. • 04 Mar 2002 (Ministry of Manpower) In a press statement on public holidays for 2002 released on 29 December 2000, the Singapore Ministry of Manpower announced that Deepavali would fall on 3rd November 2002 (Sunday). • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Singapore public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Public holidays falling on a Sunday will be celebrated on the Monday following. Also, should two public holidays coincide, an extra day may be given immediately after to make up. • Deepavali will be counter-checked with the Indian Almanacs when they are available towards the end of the preceding year as the actual Deepavali date is based on the Indian Almanacs. Should there be a difference, the Ministry of Manpower would announce it accordingly towards the end of the preceding year. • Before 1974, the Muslim calendar in Singapore was based on sightings from Sultan Shoal, the southernmost part of Singapore. The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, MUIS) then decided that the new month starts if at sunset on the eve of the 29th day the Moon is above the horizon. In the 80s they decided to follow a variation of the 1978 Istanbul criteria and require that the altitude of the Moon should be more than 5 degrees at sunset. In the 90s they switched to 2 degrees. This was part of an attempt to coordinate the major holidays with Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, which occasionally may lead to different results. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Singapore, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Singapore, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Singapore. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Singapore that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays, for Singapore, were calculated using the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS) lunar visibility criteria. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Hindu Holidays : For Singapore, when calculating the date of bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays based on the Hindu Lunar calendar, if the date is expunged (ie. does not occur), then we use the following existing date of the Hindu Lunar calendar. Local practice concerning expunged days may vary regionally. For more details on the evaluation of Hindu holidays, see Hindu Calendar holidays.

Lunisolar Holidays : The calculation of moon phases, moonrises, moonsets, sunrises, and sunsets used to predict lunar bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Singapore are based on the geographical location of Singapore (latitude 1,3°N, longitude 103,8°E, GMT+8,0 hours, no summer time rules). Note that many countries in South-East Asia are progressively changing the recurrence rule of some of their lunar/solar holidays to rules based on fixed dates of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Therefore, while the dates predicted above for 2009 and beyond are currently technically correct, the rules of these holidays may change in the next few years. For more details on lunar and solar holidays, see the Lunisolar Footnotes.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Singapore, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Singapore, before planning any trip to Singapore. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.