Singapore’s Public Holidays for 2023

Singapore’s public holidays for 2023 were released in April 2022. In total, it has 14 days for 10 public holidays (instead of the gazetted 11 public holidays). 

The President of Singapore can declare any day a public holiday.

If a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the following day is usually declared a public holiday, unless the Monday itself is already a public holiday. If a public holiday falls on a Saturday, the government will declare a school holiday the following Monday. 

Employees who have to work on a public holiday will be entitled to an extra day’s salary at the basic rate of pay, in addition to their gross rate of pay for that day. Alternatively, employers, with the employee’s consent, can substitute the employee’s day off with another working day.

Employers also have the option of granting time-off-in-lieu, based on a mutually agreed number of hours, for working on a public holiday for the following group of employees:

• Workmen earning more than $4,500 a month;
• Non-workmen earning more than $2,600 a month; and
• All managers and executives.

Singapore’s public holiday schedule for 2023

The Ministry of Manpower’s (MoM) dates for the 2023 public holidays are:

Singapore’s public holiday schedule for 2023
Public Holiday	Day	Date
The regular holidays are:
New Year’s Day	Sunday	January 1
Chinese New Year	Sunday	January 22
Good Friday	Friday	April 7
Eid-al Fitr	Saturday	April 22
Labour Day	Monday	May 1
Vesak Day	Friday	June 2
Eid-al adha	Thursday	June 29
National Day	Wednesday	August 9
Deepavali	Sunday	November 12
Christmas Day	Monday	December 25
Additional non-working days:
New Year’s Day	Monday	January 1
Chinese New Year	Monday, Tuesday	January 23, 24
Deepavali	Monday	November 13

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