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Collection: Singapore Public Holidays

Dataset: Public Holidays for 2020

Economy Social

Public Holidays for 2020

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

List of public holidays in Singapore for the year 2020

Data from Jan 2020 to Dec 2020

Last updated 2 months ago (3 Jul 2026)

Data explorer

PublicHolidaysfor2020.csv (15 rows, 537 B)

Date Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Day Text	Holiday Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020-01-01	Wednesday	New Year's Day
2020-01-25	Saturday	Chinese New Year
2020-01-26	Sunday	Chinese New Year
2020-01-27	Monday	Chinese New Year (Observed)
2020-04-10	Friday	Good Friday
2020-05-01	Friday	Labour Day
2020-05-07	Thursday	Vesak Day
2020-05-24	Sunday	Hari Raya Puasa
2020-05-25	Monday	Hari Raya Puasa (Observed)
2020-07-10	Friday	Polling Day

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Date	date	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Day	day	Text	-	-
Holiday	holiday	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1840fb46caa92cb59e4f168e70a36bf1"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2020). Public Holidays for 2020 (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1840fb46caa92cb59e4f168e70a36bf1/view

About this dataset

Contact

support@data.gov.sg

Created on

28 Feb 2020

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)