List of statutory holidays in Papua New Guinea

Official holidays in Papua New Guinea in 2018 include: January 1, New Year's Day; March 29, Good Friday; March 30, Easter; June 10, Queen's Birthday; July 23, Memorial Day; September 16, Independence Day; December 25, Christmas Day; December 26, Boxing Day. Every Saturday afternoon and Sunday are public holidays.

January 1 New Year's Day March 29 Good Friday, also known as Good Friday, is the day when Christian believers commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is the Friday before Easter. According to the Bible, Jesus was crucified at about 9:00 a.m. on the 14th day of the Jewish calendar in 33 A.D. and died at about 3:00 p.m. Jesus only commanded His disciples to remember His death.

March 30-April 1 Easter Sunday (Main Easter Day) is an important Western festival, which falls on the first Sunday after the full moon of the vernal equinox every year. Christians believe that Easter symbolizes rebirth and hope, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion between 30 and 33 AD. If there is an Easter holiday in the area, it is usually celebrated with Good Friday. Today, many Easter related folk customs such as the Easter bunny and Easter eggs are not of Christian origin. Jesus only commanded his disciples to remember his own death (Luke 22:19, 20).

June 10, Queen's Day is uncertain. Sing Sing Show The most famous Sing Show on the island of Papua New Guinea is Goroka / Mountain Hagen / Morobe / Enga, as well as the Mask Festival on the outlying island of New England. Most tourists participate in Goroka and Mt. Hagen, because these two cities are located in the Eastern Highland Province and the Western Highland Province respectively, the facial makeup of highland tribes is generally brighter than that of lowland and outlying islands. At the same time, highland tribesmen like to purchase beautiful shells from lowland tribes as a symbol of wealth.(Shells are not produced in the Highlands, so beautiful, rare, easy-to-maintain and traded shells can be used as symbols of wealth in the Highlands.) So you can see very bright colors on the Goroka and Mt.Hagen Sing Sing Show grounds, which is completely a paradise for portrait photography. Morobe show mainly invites tribes from Morobe Province. Of course, there are also highland tribes and tribes from other provinces, but the number of highland tribes is not as large as that of Goroka show and Mt. Hagen shows so much. Fewer people in Enga Province leave Enga Province, have less contact with the outside world, and still retain their unique cultural traditions. Therefore, Enga Province also holds its own Enga Sing Sing Festival to promote the uniqueness of Enga Province's culture.

July New England Mask Festival The New England Mask Festival is held every July. Sing Sing dancers on the island of New Guinea rarely wear masks and most of them use face painting. Therefore, even if you have participated in the Sing Sing Show on the island, you must go to see a very different mask festival.

July 23 National Day August 26 National Contract Day September 16 Independence Day December 25 Christmas Day December 26 Boxing Day