About SG Chinese New Year

What this site is

Chinese New Year moves every year against the Gregorian calendar, so “when is it?” is a question people re-ask each December. This site answers it clearly: the exact dates, whether they land on a weekend and shift the public holiday, the animal of the zodiac year, and short guides to the reunion dinner, ang bao and the customs. It is a small, focused reference rather than a blog.

Where the dates come from

Accuracy is the whole point, so the dates trace back to an official source rather than a copied calendar.

• Public holiday dates are pulled directly from the government open-data portal, data.gov.sg, so they match the gazetted dates exactly — including the case where a holiday on a Sunday is observed on the following Monday.
• The zodiac year follows the standard twelve-year cycle, and the festival background is drawn from well-established, widely documented tradition rather than a single opinion.

How it is kept current

The public holiday data refreshes automatically from data.gov.sg, and each new year's gazetted dates are added as soon as they are published. If two sources ever disagree, the official government date wins. You can always check a date yourself against data.gov.sg and the Ministry of Manpower public holiday list.

Who it is for

Anyone planning around the festival: families lining up the reunion dinner and travel, people booking leave around the two public holidays, and anyone who simply wants to know the date and the zodiac for the year ahead. The year pages for 2026 and 2027 and the guides turn the dates into something you can actually plan with.