To help you plan your holidays in the new year, here is a summary of the public and school holidays in Malaysia for 2024!

 

2024 Public Holidays For Malaysia

Here are the public holidays for Malaysia in the year 2024. Some of these days may be subject to change.

Recommended : 2024 – 2025 Malaysia School Term + Holiday Calendar!

Date	Day	Holiday	States
1 Jan	Mon	New Year’s Day	All states except Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu
14 Jan 15 Jan	Sun Mon	YDPB Negeri Sembilan’s Birthday	Negeri Sembilan
25 Jan	Thu	Thaipusam	Johor, Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan, Penang, Perak, Putrajaya and Selangor
1 Feb	Thu	Federal Territory Day	Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, Putrajaya
8 Feb	Thu	Israk and Mikraj	Kedah, Negeri Sembilan, Perlis and Terengganu
10 Feb 11 Feb	Sat Sun	Chinese New Year	All states
12 Feb	Mon		All states except Johor and Kedah
20 Feb	Tue	Independence Declaration Day	Melaka
4 Mar	Mon	Accession Anniversary of Terengganu Sultan	Terengganu
12 Mar	Tue	Awal Ramadan	Johor, Kedah and Melaka
23 Mar	Sat	Sultan of Johor’s Birthday	Johor
28 Mar	Thu	Nuzul al-Quran	All states except Johor, Kedah, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Sabah and Sarawak
29 Mar	Fri	Good Friday	Sabah and Sarawak
10 Apr 11 Apr	Wed Thu	Hari Raya Aidilfitri	All states
26 Apr	Fri	Sultan of Terengganu’s Birthday	Terengganu
1 May	Wed	Labour Day	All states
17 May	Fri	Raja of Perlis’ Birthday	Perlis
22 May	Mon	Wesak Day	All states
22 May 23 May	Mon Tue	Hari Hol Pahang	Pahang
30 May 31 May	Thu Fri	Harvest Festival	Labuan and Sabah
1 Jun 2 Jun 4 Jun	Sat Sun Tue	Hari Gawai	Sarawak
3 Jun	Mon	YDP Agong’s Birthday	All states
16 Jun	Sun	Arafat Day	Kelantan and Terengganu
17 Jun	Mon	Hari Raya Haji	All states
18 Jun	Tue		Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis, Terengganu
30 Jun	Sun	Sultan of Kedah’s Birthday	Kedah
7 Jul	Sun	Awal Muharram	All states
8 Jul	Mon		All states, except Johor, Kedah, Kelantan & Terengganu
7 Jul 9 Jul	Sun Tue	Georgetown World Heritage City Day	Penang
13 Jul	Sat	Penang Governor’s Birthday
22 Jul	Mon	Sarawak Day	Sarawak
30 Jul	Tue	Sultan of Pahang’s Birthday	Pahang
11 Aug	Sun	Hari Hol Almarhum Sultan Iskandar	Johor
24 Aug	Sat	Melaka Governor’s Birthday	Melaka
31 Aug	Sat	Merdeka Day	All states
1 Sep	Sun		Kelantan & Terengganu
16 Sep	Mon	Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday	All states
16 Sep 17 Sep	Mon Tue	Malaysia Day	All states
29 Sep 30 Sep	Sun Mon	Sultan of Kelantan’s Birthday	Kelantan
5 Oct	Sat	Sabah Governor’s Birthday	Sabah
12 Oct	Sat	Sarawak Governor’s Birthday	Sarawak
31 Oct	Thu	Deepavali	All states except Sarawak
1 Nov	Fri	Sultan of Perak’s Birthday	Perak
11 Dec	Wed	Sultan of Selangor’s Birthday	Selangor
24 Dec	Tue	Christmas Eve	Sabah
25 Dec	Wed	Christmas Day	All states

 

2024 School Holidays For Malaysia

The COVID-19 pandemic has thoroughly screwed up the school term and holidays. Instead of starting in January and ending in December, the new term now starts in March and every year will have two “academic years”.

It will now take until 2026 for the government to shift the school term back to January-December. This is quite confusing for many of us parents, so here is a quick summary of the school holidays for the year 2024.

Read more : Malaysia Schools To Start In January Again From 2026!

Group A Schools

Here are the school holidays for Group A states of Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu.

Holiday	Start	End	Days
Term 1 Holiday	24 May 2024	2 June 2024	10
Term 2 Holiday	13 Sep 2024	21 Sep 2024	9
Term 3 Holiday	20 Dec 2024	28 Dec 2024	9
Year End Holiday	17 Jan 2025	15 Feb 2025	30

In addition, the government also announced these extra holidays for Group A schools:

Festival Holidays	Group A	Notes
Chinese New Year	Saturday + Sunday, 10 and 11 February 2024	Part of 2023-2024 Year-End Holiday
Hari Raya Aidilfitri	7 to 9 April 2024 10 to 11 April 2024	3 extra days Public Holiday
Hari Deepavali	30 October 2024 31 October 2024	1 extra day Public Holiday
Christmas	25 December 2024	Public Holiday
Chinese New Year	Wednesday + Thursday, 29 and 30 January 2025	Part of 2024-2025 Year-End Holiday

Group B Schools

Here are the school holidays for Group A states of Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.

Holiday	Start	End	Days
Term 1 Holiday	25 May 2024	2 June 2024	9
Term 2 Holiday	14 Sep 2024	22 Sep 2024	9
Term 3 Holiday	21 Dec 2024	29 Dec 2024	9
Year End Holiday	18 Jan 2025	16 Feb 2025	30

In addition, the government also announced these extra holidays for Group B schools:

Festival Holidays	Group B	Notes
Chinese New Year	Saturday and Sunday, 10 and 11 February 2024	Within 2023 Year-End Holiday
Hari Raya Aidilfitri	8 to 9 April 2024 10 to 11 April 2024 12 April 2024	2 extra days Public Holiday 1 extra day
Pesta Kaamatan	Only for Sabah + Labuan Thursday and Friday, 31 and 31 May 2024	Part of Term 1 Holidays
Hari Gawai Dayak	Only for Sarawak Saturday, 1 June 2024 Sunday, 2 June 2024	Part of Term 1 Holidays
Hari Deepavali	Except Sarawak 30 October 2024 31 October 2024 1 November 2024	1 extra day Public Holiday 1 extra day
	Only for Sarawak 30 October 2024 31 October 2024	1 extra day Public Holiday
Christmas	25 December 2024	Part of Term 3 Holidays
Chinese New Year	Wednesday + Thursday, 29 and 30 January 2025	Part of 2024-2025 Year-End Holiday

 

 

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