2027 Holidays for Filipinos in Singapore: SG, PH and Embassy Dates

Singapore has 11 public holidays in 2027, five of them landing on long weekends, while the Philippines has 10 dated regular holidays and 8 special non-working days under Proclamation No. 1427. The Philippine Embassy in Singapore plans to close on 18 days in 2027, a mix of both countries' holidays, so check all three tables below before you file leave, book a consular slot or send padala.

Singapore public holidays 2027

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) published the 2027 list on its public holidays page, last updated 19 June 2026 (source). Lunar and Islamic dates can still shift on final gazetting, so re-check MOM before you book a flight on one of them.

The rule behind the long weekends. MOM says that if a public holiday falls on your rest day, the following working day becomes a paid public holiday. If it falls on your non-working day (Saturday, on a five-day week), you get another day off or one extra day's salary instead (source). That second rule covers Chinese New Year day 1, Labour Day and Christmas in 2027. Your employer picks between the day off and the pay, so ask HR now which one you get.

Philippine holidays 2027

President Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1427 on 8 September 2026 (source) (source). These are the days your family, your bank and government offices at home stop.

Eid'l Fitr and Eid'l Adha count as regular holidays by law, but Section 2 of the proclamation leaves their dates to separate proclamations, on the recommendation of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos. Do not assume they match Singapore's Hari Raya dates.

Philippine Embassy Singapore closures: rest of 2026 and 2027

The Embassy at 20 Nassim Road closes on both Singapore and Philippine holidays. Its normal hours run Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and every consular and labor transaction needs an appointment (source).

Remaining 2026 closures (Embassy Advisory AD-078-2025) (source):

2027 closures (Embassy Advisory AD-042-2026, marked "subject to confirmation") (source):

Extended Fridays still left in 2026. The Embassy stays open 8:30 AM to 8:30 PM for consular and labor services on 30 October, 27 November and 18 December 2026, and adds extra appointment slots (source). That advisory stops at December 2026. Watch the Embassy's advisories for the 2027 schedule.

A trap to avoid: a Singapore holiday feels like the perfect free weekday for passport renewal, but the Embassy shuts on every Singapore holiday too. If weekday leave is hard to get, an extended Friday evening is your best window.

Long weekends in 2027 and how to stretch annual leave

Five three-day weekends come free in 2027 (see the first table). A few days of leave turn the midweek holidays into proper breaks. Plug your own leave balance into the FIS leave planner to test other combinations.

• Hari Raya Puasa: take Thursday 11 and Friday 12 March. You get Wednesday 10 to Sunday 14 March, five days off for two days of leave.
• Holy Week uwi: take Thursday 25 March. Thursday to Sunday matches Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturday at home, when the whole family is off.
• The May stretch: take Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19 and Friday 21 May. Hari Raya Haji (Monday 17) and Vesak (Thursday 20) give you Saturday 15 to Sunday 23 May, nine days for three days of leave.
• Deepavali into Undas: take Friday 29 October, Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 November. You get Thursday 28 October to Tuesday 2 November, six days that cover All Saints' and All Souls' Day in the Philippines.
• Christmas: Christmas Day falls on a Saturday. Five days of leave from Monday 20 to Friday 24 December give you Saturday 18 to Sunday 26 December at home, including Noche Buena.

File your Holy Week and Undas leave first. Your Singaporean colleagues will not compete for those, but every Filipino in the office will.

Padala timing: Philippine bank holidays and remittance payouts

Two Philippine transfer rails matter here. InstaPay runs 24/7, holidays included, for online and mobile transfers. PESONet credits same day when you send before your bank's cut-off on a banking day. Anything sent after cut-off, on weekends or on holidays waits for the next banking day (source) (source).

Mark these 2027 stretches when PESONet will not post:

• Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 March (Holy Week plus Easter Sunday)
• Saturday 30 October to Tuesday 2 November (weekend plus Undas)
• Friday 24 to Sunday 26 December (Christmas Eve to the weekend)
• Thursday 30 to Friday 31 December (Rizal Day and Last Day of the Year, running into the weekend)

What to do about it:

• If tuition, rent or a hospital bill falls due right after one of these stretches, send before your bank's last cut-off on the banking day before. PSBank, for example, sets its final PESONet cut-off at 3:00 PM.
• For urgent amounts, use InstaPay. Limits vary by bank; PSBank caps online InstaPay at PhP50,000 per transaction.
• Ask your remittance company which rail its bank-deposit payout uses. If it relies on PESONet, the holiday calendar applies to you.
• Compare today's SGD to peso rates on the FIS rates page before you send.

Helper rest days and public holidays

MOM lists domestic workers among the groups the Employment Act does not cover (source). The public holiday rules in the first section come from that Act. For anyone outside it, MOM says public holiday terms follow the employment contract (source).

So for kasambahay kababayans, read the contract first. If it promises public holidays off or paid, your employer has to follow it.

These MOM rules apply to every migrant domestic worker, whatever the contract says (source):

• One rest day per week, on a day you and your employer agree.
• If you agree to work on your rest day, your employer must pay you at least one day's salary for it.
• At least one rest day a month cannot be compensated away. That one stays a real day off.

Use the FIS helper rest day pay calculator to count what you are owed for worked rest days and holidays in any month.