Lunar New Year 2026, Ho Chi Minh City students can have 16 days off

Dự kiến học sinh TP.HCM có thể nghỉ Tết Nguyên đán 16 ngày - Ảnh 1. — Ho Chi Minh City students are expected to have 16 days off for Lunar New Year 2026.

At the meeting on providing suggestions for building educational activities in schools held on September 10, representatives of public and non-public schools commented that in the 2025-2026 school year schedule, Ho Chi Minh City has not yet regulated the Lunar New Year holiday. Therefore, the schools proposed that the Department of Education and Training regulate it early so that schools can proactively arrange study plans for students right from the beginning of the school year.

Responding to this issue, Mr. Ho Tan Minh, Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, said that the timetable for the 2025-2026 school year in Ho Chi Minh City is implemented according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. Specifically, the school year starts from September 5 and ends on May 31, ensuring 35 weeks of actual teaching.

During this time, schools can proactively arrange teaching and learning plans to ensure enough actual weeks of study. The Lunar New Year holiday schedule will be arranged appropriately, as long as the required number of teaching weeks are ensured.

"The Department will propose a holiday schedule for the whole week, meaning a holiday on the weekend and returning to school at the beginning of the week. The official Lunar New Year holiday plan needs to wait for the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to issue. It is expected that the Department will propose to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to let students have a two-week Lunar New Year holiday," the Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training informed.

In the 2025-2026 school year schedule issued by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee at the end of August, semester 1 begins on September 5, ensuring 18 weeks of actual study, the remaining time is for other activities. Semester 2 begins on January 19, 2026, ensuring 17 weeks of actual study. The school year ends before May 31, 2026.

Thus, based on the school year schedule as well as the proposed Tet holiday schedule of the Department of Education and Training, the 2026 Lunar New Year holiday schedule for students in Ho Chi Minh City will be from February 9, 2026 to February 22, 2026 (ie from December 22 to the 6th day of the Lunar New Year). In fact, counting weekends, the Tet holiday for students in Ho Chi Minh City will be about 16 days.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tet-nguyen-dan-nam-2026-hoc-sinh-tphcm-co-the-nghi-16-ngay-18525091109444352.htm