Tết

Tết Nguyên Đán, usually shortened to Tết, is Viet Nam's most important annual festival. It begins the lunar year and brings together ideas of renewal, family continuity and good fortune. Homes are cleaned and decorated, people travel back to their home provinces, and the first visits of the year are treated with special care.

The Labour Code grants five paid days for the Lunar New Year, while the Prime Minister decides the exact annual leave pattern. For 2026, the official schedule for public employees runs from Monday February 16 through Friday February 20, spanning the final day of the old lunar year and the first four days of the Year of the Horse. Private employers choose an authorised five-day arrangement and must notify employees in advance.

The 2026 statutory Tết dates for the public-service schedule were Monday, February 16 through Friday, February 20. With the adjacent weekends, civil servants and public employees received nine consecutive calendar days from February 14 through 22. Private employers still had to choose a lawful five-day pattern—one to three days before the lunar new year and two to four afterward—and notify employees at least thirty days in advance. The extended public-sector calendar should not be presented as nine statutory paid Tết days, and services without a Saturday–Sunday workweek organise continuity separately.