Public holidays, exam countdown, solar terms and lunar birthday widgets

These 6 widgets are free. Find them under Countdowns, Calendar & progress and Learning.

The region follows your language

The three holiday widgets cover 7 regions: Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the US and the UK (England & Wales). By default the region is “Match language”: Simplified Chinese → Mainland China, Traditional Chinese → Taiwan, English → the US, Japanese → Japan, Korean → South Korea. To pin a region, pick it under Region in the editor.

Where holiday data comes from

It's the same data as the built-in holiday calendars in calendar subscriptions:

Region	Source
Mainland China	State Council holiday notices (including make-up workdays)
Taiwan	Google's public Taiwan holiday calendar (national holidays and make-up workdays only)
Hong Kong	General holidays published by 1823, HKSAR Government
Japan	Cabinet Office of Japan, “National Holidays”
South Korea	Google's public South Korea holiday calendar (Seollal and Chuseok breaks, substitute holidays, election days)
United States	Federal holidays under 5 U.S.C. 6103, including observed days
United Kingdom	Bank holidays for England & Wales from GOV.UK

The widgets only show days that have already been announced — nothing is guessed from past patterns, so the list is shorter until next year's schedule is published.

Public Holiday Countdown

Shows how many days until the next public holiday and how long the break is with the weekend (“5-day break”). The large size adds that week's calendar, the upcoming holidays and, for Mainland China and Taiwan, the next make-up workday.

Holiday Calendar

This month's calendar with public holidays in red and make-up workdays marked “W”. The week starts on Monday in Mainland China and the UK and on Sunday elsewhere by default — you can change it.

Long-Weekend Planner

Uses announced holidays and weekends to work out “take 2 days off, get 9 in a row”, keeping the best option for each holiday. Set Max days off to take (1–5, default 3). Make-up workdays count as workdays.

Exam D-Day

Presets for common exams: Gaokao, the Chinese graduate entrance exam, Taiwan's GSAT, the HKDSE, Japan's Common Test, the JLPT, Korea's CSAT (Suneung), SAT, ACT and GCSE / A-levels. Preset dates only use officially published schedules, and each one shows its source at the bottom of the widget:

Exam	Dates included now	Source
China graduate entrance exam (2027)	from 2026-12-19	Ministry of Education of China
Taiwan GSAT (2027)	from 2027-01-22	College Entrance Examination Center
HKDSE (2027)	from 2027-04-06	HKEAA 2027 timetable
Japan's Common Test (2027)	from 2027-01-16	National Center for University Entrance Examinations
JLPT	2026-12-06	Japan Foundation / JEES
CSAT, Suneung (2027)	2026-11-19	Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation
SAT	2026-12-05, 2027-03-06, 05-01, 06-05	College Board
ACT	2026-12-12, 2027-02-27, 04-10, 06-12, 07-10	ACT
GCSE / A-level	from 2027-05-10	JCQ key dates, June 2027 series

Dates that haven't been announced show as “Date TBA” — we don't guess (for example, the 2027 Gaokao dates haven't been published yet). We update the list once official dates are out. TOEIC, TOEFL and IELTS run every month, so pick one and enter your own test date, or choose My exam and add a name and date.

24 Solar Terms

Which of the 24 solar terms we're in, how long until the next one, a wheel of the whole year and a short note for each term (written by WidgetStore). Chinese and English use dates in China time (UTC+8); Japanese and Korean use UTC+9. When a term starts after 11 pm China time the two dates differ by a day — change it under Dates in.

Lunar Birthday

Enter the lunar month and day, and the widget shows which day the birthday falls on this year, how many days are left and the dates for the next few years. It uses the Chinese lunar calendar by default in Chinese and English, and the Korean one (UTC+9) in Japanese and Korean — they're occasionally a day apart. Months without a 30th use the 29th, and leap-month birthdays use the regular month. The default “Mom · 8/15” is a sample, marked “Sample”.