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  1. Environment DaysCivicEvents1Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Oct 27, 2026Environment days almost never come with a day off.24 hoursHot
  2. HalloweenFestivalEvents1Brazil · Japan · Taiwan +4Oct 31, 2026No country on this board has made Halloween on 31 October a public holiday.24 hoursRising
  3. War dead and veteransRemembranceEvents1Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Nov 11, 2026The United States splits the dead from the survivors into two separate federal holidays: Memorial Day in May for those killed, Veterans Day on 11 November for those who came home.24 hoursHot
  4. Valentine's DayRelationshipsEvents1Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Feb 12, 2027There is more than one day for showing affection, and they do not fall together: Japan has women giving chocolate on 14 February and a return gift on 14 March, Taiwan keeps both 14 February and the lunar Qixi, Brazil places it on 12 June, India stretches it into a week, and the United States keeps it to a single day.24 hoursRising
  5. Cross-border Q&ACommunityEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Wondering how people in Taiwan, Japan, the United States, India, Indonesia, or Brazil study, shop, celebrate, or handle an ordinary errand?24 hoursRising
  6. School Start DatesEducationEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4There is no single back-to-school date: Japan's school year runs from 1 April to 31 March, Taiwan's administrative year starts on 1 August while pupils usually return in early September, and mainland China sets the autumn start through local calendars in late August or early September.24 hoursRising
  7. Birthdays and BlessingsFamilyEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Birthdays are more than cake: Taiwan uses both completed age and traditional age and often marks longevity from sixty; Japan legally moved away from kazoedoshi while retaining milestones such as kanreki; in the U.S., ages 16, 18, and 21 unlock different rights.24 hoursRising
  8. Family Care and GenerationsFamilyEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Family care is not only a question of living together: it is also about who is legally responsible and where support can be requested.24 hoursHot
  9. Children's DayFestivalEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Six places put Children's Day on six different dates, spread from April to November, and 'who gets the day off' differs too: Taiwan closes for everyone, mainland China gives the day off only to children under fourteen, Japan writes thanking the mother into the statutory purpose, Indonesia's is a presidential-decree observance with a ministry theme each year, Brazil's shares its date with the country's patron saint, and India's is tied to Nehru's birthday.24 hoursRising
  10. ChristmasFestivalEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4December 25 is not the same thing in seven places.24 hoursRising
  11. Coming-of-Age RitesLife stagesEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Legal adulthood and a coming-of-age ceremony are not the same line.24 hoursRising
  12. Diwali Dates and HolidaysFestivalEvents0India · United States · Brazil +4Diwali is a five-day season, not a single day.24 hoursRising
  13. Dragon Boat FestivalFestivalEvents0China · Indonesia · Japan +4The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a public holiday in both Taiwan and mainland China, while Japan moved the same 'fifth of the fifth' onto the Gregorian calendar and turned it into a statutory children's day.24 hoursRising
  14. EasterFaithEvents0Brazil · Indonesia · India +4Easter's institutional position differs sharply across these four places, and not in the direction most people expect: Muslim-majority Indonesia lists four Christian observances as national holidays — Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Christmas; the Christian-majority United States lists none of them as federal holidays except Christmas; Brazil hands the decision on religious holidays to municipal councils with a cap of four; and India's national list carries Good Friday rather than Easter Sunday.24 hoursRising
  15. Eid al-AdhaFaithEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4One date in the Islamic calendar, four different institutional treatments: Indonesia makes it a national holiday and adds joint leave; India lists it among national holidays; the United States has no federal holiday but New York City public schools close; and in Brazil it is not even a statutory commemorative date yet — a Senate committee only approved adding Islamic festivals to the national calendar in 2024.24 hoursRising
  16. Farewells and FuneralsRemembranceEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Funerals follow two clocks: an administrative clock and a family or religious clock.24 hoursRising
  17. Father's DayRelationshipsEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Father's Day sits on three different dates across four places, and the origins have nothing in common: Taiwan picked 8 August because 'eight-eight' sounds like the word for dad, the United States took nearly sixty years to legislate it in 1972, and Brazil's was invented in 1953 by an advertising man to fill a gap in the second half of the retail year.24 hoursRising
  18. Ghosts, Ancestors, and RemembranceRemembranceEvents0Brazil · China · Japan +4It does not assume that every household or community follows the same practice.24 hoursRising
  19. Graduation SeasonEducationEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Graduation does not fall in one universal month: Japan graduates in March before the April school year, Taiwan and mainland China mostly in June–July, US districts in May–June, India around March–May alongside board-exam results, Indonesia in May–June before its July school year, and Brazil in December.24 hoursRising
  20. Harvest and GratitudeFestivalEvents0Brazil · China · India +4Whether the harvest becomes a holiday, and who gets to define it, is answered five different ways: the United States built a federal holiday around the family table; India's Pongal is timed by the Tamil calendar and the sun's entry into Capricorn, and the pot of rice is the rite itself; Brazil ties it to three saints' days in June; mainland China created a farmers' festival by State Council approval in 2018; and Japan rewrote a prewar imperial harvest rite into a national day for thanking labour.24 hoursHot
  21. Homecoming and ReunionCommunityEveryday topicEvents0Indonesia · Japan · Brazil +4Homecoming is not one holiday pattern: Taiwan's main wave is Lunar New Year; Japan has year-end/New Year and Obon; China's roughly forty-day chunyun surrounds Spring Festival; and Thanksgiving drives the largest U.S. wave.24 hoursRising
  22. Labour Day Dates by CountryCivicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Labour Day usually falls on 1 May, but the date and the time off depend on the country: the United States observes Labor Day on the first Monday of September, Japan works on 1 May between its Golden Week holidays, and India leaves 1 May to state and institutional calendars.24 hoursRising
  23. Lantern FestivalFestivalEvents0China · Indonesia · Taiwan +4The same lunar date is three different scenes in Taiwan alone — eating tangyuan and walking through a lantern display, releasing sky lanterns in Pingxi, or standing inside a wall of exploding fireworks in Yanshui — while in mainland China it is a working day, not one of the days off for all citizens.24 hoursRising
  24. Mid-Autumn and Moon ViewingFestivalEvents0China · Japan · Taiwan +4Around the same full moon, four different observances: Taiwan and mainland China take the day off, eat mooncakes, and gather as a family; the Korean-ethnic community of Yanbian in China keeps it as Chuseok, where tomb-sweeping comes first; and Japan does not close at all, treating it as an astronomical and seasonal night — where the national observatory is explicit that the 'harvest moon' is often not that night's full moon.24 hoursHot
  25. Mother's DayRelationshipsEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Four places keep Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May; Indonesia keeps it on 22 December — and there it is not a day for thanking mothers but a political commemoration of the first Indonesian Women's Congress of 1928.24 hoursRising
  26. Moving Home and HousewarmingHomeEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Moving home has two separate questions: whether an address must be registered with one authority, and how a household marks the new threshold.24 hoursRising
  27. National DaysCivicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4The seven national days commemorate different kinds of events: the United States, Brazil, Indonesia and India mark the moment of leaving colonial rule or declaring independence; mainland China marks the founding of a state; Taiwan marks an uprising that ended an empire; and Japan's National Foundation Day has no corresponding dated historical event at all, being set on a legendary enthronement.24 hoursHot
  28. New YearFestivalEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4'New Year' is not one day. Taiwan and mainland China keep the first day of the first lunar month; Japan, the United States, Brazil and Indonesia take 1 January; and India's national holiday list contains no 1 January at all — there the new year falls in March or April and carries a different name in each state.24 hoursRising
  29. Newborns and the First MonthLife stagesEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Newborn life follows two clocks: birth registration and family celebration.24 hoursRising
  30. Proposals and EngagementsRelationshipsEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4An engagement is not a marriage. Taiwan sets engagement at 17 and marriage at 18, and a promise to marry cannot be forced; Indonesia sets the minimum marriage age at 19 for both sexes, with lamaran serving first as public family recognition.24 hoursRising
  31. Ramadan and Eid al-FitrFaithEvents0China · Indonesia · India +4Taiwan does not make Eid al-Fitr a statutory holiday; in Indonesia, the first day of Ramadan is announced by the Ministry of Religious Affairs at the preceding night's sidang isbat, while the Eid break is scheduled separately around 1 Shawwal.24 hoursRising
  32. Teachers' DayCivicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +5In 2027, the dates on this page are India on 5 September, mainland China on 10 September, Taiwan on 28 September, Brazil on 15 October, Indonesia on 25 November, Singapore on 3 September (estimated from the school calendar), and the United States' Teacher Appreciation Week on 3–7 May, with local district dates varying.24 hoursHot
  33. Weddings and Marriage CustomsRelationshipsEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4The legal doorway to marriage differs by place.24 hoursRising
  34. University Entrance ExamsCommunityEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Every country here runs a national test that decides university places, but how tightly that decision is compressed varies enormously.24 hoursRising
  35. Other days of the Islamic calendarFestivalEvents0Indonesia · India · Brazil +4Beyond Ramadan and the two Eids, the Islamic calendar carries several more days: the New Year on 1 Muharram, Ashura on 10 Muharram, the Prophet's birthday, and Isra Mi'raj.24 hoursRising
  36. International Women's DayCommunityEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4March 8 falls on the same day in all seven places compared here, and is treated completely differently by each legal system.24 hoursRising
  37. Days for Elders and GrandparentsFamilyEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4All seven markets set aside a day for their oldest members, and no two of them put it in the same place on the calendar.24 hoursHot
  38. Year-End Bonus and the Thirteenth SalaryCivicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's year-end bonus rests on Article 29 of the Labor Standards Act, which applies only when the business closes its year with a surplus — a condition, with no deadline and no penalty, so the amount is the company's call.24 hoursRising
  39. What voting asks of you, country by countryCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Article 14 of Brazil's constitution makes voting a duty for citizens between eighteen and seventy, and you must account for missing it.24 hoursRising
  40. Maternity, Paternity and Parental LeaveCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's Labour Standards Act gives eight weeks of maternity leave, fully paid after six months of service.24 hoursRising
  41. Conscripted, registered, or merely obliged on paperCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Article 1 of Taiwan's Military Service Act is a single sentence — every male citizen has the duty to serve — and Article 16 sets active conscript service at one year.24 hoursRising
  42. Official Languages by Country: Who Decides?CivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Which language is official depends on where the rule lives: Indonesia and Brazil name a state language in their constitutions, India sets the Union's official language in its constitution, China promotes Putonghua through an education clause without naming an "official language", and the United States designated English by executive order in 2025.24 hoursRising
  43. Compulsory education: from what age to what age — and whose duty is itCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's Compulsory Education Act sets six to fifteen, nine years, and leaves compulsory enrolment itself to a separate statute.24 hoursRising
  44. Religion and the state: how far apart a constitution puts themCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4The very first line of Article 29 of Indonesia's constitution is that the state is based upon belief in the One and Only God.24 hoursRising
  45. Pets and Family LifeFamilyEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Calling an animal family does not make it a person in law.24 hoursRising
  46. Pet Preparedness and Disaster PlanningFamilyEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Pet preparedness is more than buying extra food.24 hoursRising
  47. CarnivalFestivalEvents0Brazil · India · Japan +4Carnival is not a public holiday in Brazil.24 hoursRising
  48. The Christian calendar’s other daysFaithEvents0Brazil · Indonesia · United States +4Beyond Christmas and Easter, the same Easter computus produces a whole series of days: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi.24 hoursRising
  49. Indigenous and Colonial MemoryRemembranceEvents0Brazil · India · Taiwan +4In the United States the second Monday in October is one square on the calendar claimed by two names.24 hoursRising
  50. Emancipation DaysRemembranceEvents0Brazil · India · Taiwan +4The two largest slaveholding societies in the Americas both waited until the 2020s to put abolition on the national holiday calendar — the United States in 2021, Brazil in 2023 — more than a century and a half after slavery ended in law.24 hoursRising
  51. Founders and National LeadersCivicEvents0Brazil · Indonesia · India +4In federal law the third Monday in February is still called Washington's Birthday.24 hoursHot
  52. Days of the Jewish calendarFaithEvents0United States · Brazil · China +4Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Hanukkah are national holidays nowhere — not even in the United States, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, where the holidays for federal employees are fixed by statute at 5 U.S.C. 6103 and contain exactly one religious festival, Christmas.24 hoursHot
  53. Long Holiday WeeksCivicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Seven places all end up with a run of consecutive days off, and not one of them builds it the same way.24 hoursHot
  54. Shopping FestivalsFestivalEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Shopping festivals are the one kind of festival the retail trade invented for itself and the state had to regulate afterwards.24 hoursHot
  55. Beer FestivalsFestivalEvents0Brazil · China · Japan +4The same German festival, exported, and the decisive difference is where the state stands.24 hoursRising
  56. Tanabata and QixiFestivalEvents0China · Japan · Taiwan +4One legend about a weaver and a herdsman, one date in the seventh lunar month, and three societies that made three different festivals out of it.24 hoursRising
  57. Equinoxes and SolsticesSeasonalEvents0China · Indonesia · India +4These are the only holidays whose date nobody chose.24 hoursHot
  58. University entrance exams: what you take, who runs it, and what else countsEducationEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan sits its Scholastic Aptitude Test and Subject-Specific Test (both run by the CEEC) across three tracks with distinct rules: Application Admission caps the exam at half the final score, weighing the rest on portfolio and interview; Placement Admission ranks purely by exam score; and Star Recommendation goes on in-school class rank alone, no exam-based placement needed.24 hoursRising
  59. Health coverage: who's required to have it, and who actually paysCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's National Health Insurance Act declares enrollment mandatory in its very first article, launched in March 1995, with premiums split employer 60%, insured person 30%, government 10%.24 hoursRising
  60. Minimum Wage by CountryCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Minimum wage is set nationally in some places and regionally in others: China uses provincial tiers, the United States combines a federal floor with state rates, Japan has 47 prefectural rates, and Indonesia sets annual provincial UMP figures.24 hoursRising
  61. How many paid leave days, how overtime is paid — what differs across seven countriesCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's Labor Standards Act Article 38 tiers annual leave into six bands: 3 days at six months, 7 at one year, 10 at two years, 14 a year from three to five years, 15 a year from five to ten years, and one extra day per year after ten, capped at 30 — and unused days aren't lost, since Article 38(4) requires the employer to pay wages for them.24 hoursRising
  62. Rental deposits and landlord power: how many months, and how easily they can end itCivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's Housing Rental Market Development and Management Act caps the deposit at two months' rent (Article 7) and lists five grounds on which a landlord may end the lease early (Article 10) — four require thirty days' written notice, reclaiming the unit for reconstruction requires three months'.24 hoursRising
  63. How many days to register a residence permit — and does a new address or a new job have to be reported?CivicEveryday topicEvents0Brazil · China · Indonesia +4Taiwan's Alien Resident Certificate, issued by the National Immigration Agency, must be applied for within 30 days of entry, and an address change reported within the same 30-day window — miss it and the Immigration Act sets a fine of NT$2,000–10,000.24 hoursRising