Best Events & Festivals in Taiwan in 2024
Check out our guide to celebrations, traditional holidays and festivals in Taiwan held throughout the year.
These are some of the most popular annual celebrations and you might even want to plan a trip around these special days where you can experience first hand the culture, festivities, food and drink.
January/February
- Foundation Day/New Year’s Day
- Chinese New Year
- Qingshui Zushi’s Birthday
- Jade Emperor’s Birthday
- Lantern Festival
- Peace Memorial Day
- Wenchang Dijun’s Birthday
- Mayasvi Festival
March/April
- Guanyin’s Birthday
- Youth Day
- Queen Mother of the West’s Birthday
- Supreme Emperor of the Dark Heaven’s Birthday
- Tomb Sweeping Day
- Baosheng Dadi’s Birthday
May/June
- Bunun Ear-shooting Festival
- Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage
- Mazu’s Birthday
- Labour Day May
- Cleansing Buddha Festival
- Tainan City God Birthday
- Dragon Boat Festival
- Taipei City God Birthday
July/August
- Guan Di’s Birthday
- Yimin Festival
- Ami Harvest Festival
September/October
- Ghost Month Begins
- Ghost Festival
- Thao Pestle Music Festival
- Armed Forces Day
- Teachers’ Day/Confucius’s Birthday
- Mid-Autumn Festival
- Double Ninth Day
October
- Hualien Stone Sculpture Festival
- Sanyi Woodcarving Festival
- National Day
- Retrocession Day
November
- Austronesian Culture Festival International
- Rukai Black Rice Festival
- Ritual of the Short Black People
- Birth of Bodhidharma
- Sun Yat-sen’s Birthday
- Qingshan’s Birthday
December
- Puyuma Ear-shooting
- Constitution Day
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