@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr v3.2025.1

South Korea's National Holidays

Yearly updated based on the official gazette. Available in npm and jsDelivr.

Usage

Based on the latest release. migration guide

// ESM and CJS are both supported.
import { y2025 } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr';
const { y2025 } = require('@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr');

Check if a date string is a holiday:

import { y2024, y2025 } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr';

'2025-01-01' in y2025; // true
'2025-01-02' in y2025; // false

'2024-01-01' in y2025; // false
'2024-01-01' in y2024; // true

// y2025 is shaped like this:
{
  "2025-01-01": ["1월 1일"],
  "2025-01-28": ["설날 전날"],
  // ...
  "2025-12-25": ["기독탄신일"]
}

Check if a JavaScript Date is a holiday:

// Uses the latest 2 years of holiday data.
// e.g. v3.2025 supports dates in the year 2024-2025
// Supports tree-shaking: unused data is not bundled.
import { isHoliday } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr';

// Jan 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0900 is a holiday in ROK.
isHoliday(new Date('2025-01-01T00:00:00+0900')); // true

// Be cautious with the date's time zone!
// Dec 31 2024 23:00:00 GMT+0900 is not a holiday in ROK.
isHoliday(new Date('2025-01-01T00:00:00+1000')); // false

// Throws RangeError in versions 3.2025 and above.
isHoliday(new Date('2023-01-01T00:00:00+0900'));

// Trailing E stands for extended.
// Uses holiday data from the year 2022.
// e.g. v3.2025 supports dates in the year 2022-2025
import { isHolidayE } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr';

isHolidayE(new Date('2023-01-01T00:00:00+0900')); // true

Get holiday names of a given JavaScript Date:

// Trailing E stands for extended. Same as above.
import { getHolidayNames, getHolidayNamesE } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr';

getHolidayNames(new Date('2025-05-05T00:00:00+0900')); // [ '어린이날', '부처님 오신 날' ]
getHolidayNames(new Date('2025-05-04T00:00:00+0900')); // null

Migration

3.x

• /public directory is no longer included.
• TypeError is thrown instead of being returned.
• RangeError is thrown instead of returning null.
• isHoliday uses the latest 2 years of holiday data.
• isHoliday no longer supports the options parameter.

# Yearly holidays changed from a Map to an Object.
- y2025.has('2025-01-01');
+ '2025-01-01' in y2025;

const date = new Date('2023-01-07T00:00:00+0900'); // Saturday

// No longer supported:
isHoliday(date, { include: { saturday: true } }); // true
isHoliday(date, { include: { sunday: true } }); // false

const dateTimeFormat = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('ko-KR', {
  timeZone: 'Asia/Seoul',
  weekday: 'narrow',
});

// Check the date's weekday string instead.
dateTimeFormat.format(date); // 토

2.x

- import { isHoliday } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr/check';
+ import { isHoliday } from '@hyunbinseo/holidays-kr';