📅 Getting NEA’s latest dates…
Don’t go all the way there for nothing, ah. Type your hawker centre for its next cleaning and repair closures, or see what’s closed today.
📅 Getting NEA’s latest dates…
NEA puts each hawker centre’s closure dates on data.gov.sg as Dates of Hawker Centres Closure: one row per centre, with the year’s four cleaning dates and any longer works.
After SARS in 2003, NEA started quarterly “spring cleaning” of every hawker centre: the centre is closed, hawkers clean their stalls, and the centre gets a thorough clean. So says the Minister for the Environment’s reply in Parliament (26 March 2020). Some also close for weeks or months for repairs and redecoration.
Yes, for cleaning: NEA says the centre is closed for the thorough cleaning, and every hawker cleans their own stall. Where only part of a centre closes, NEA says so in its remarks (like “only the cooked food section is closed”), and this page shows them. On days the centre is open, each stall still keeps its own rest days, so your favourite char kway teow can still be closed.
For centres HDB owns, the town council does the spring cleaning and repairs; for the ones the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment owns, NEA does (NEA). Either way, the dates are in NEA’s list.
NEA’s Dates of Hawker Centres Closure on data.gov.sg, fetched live when you open the page. The line at the top says when NEA last updated it. NEA can change a date at short notice, so for a special trip, check NEA’s page too.
No. Coffeeshops and food courts are private businesses, not NEA hawker centres, so they set their own closing days. Places like Lau Pa Sat and Satay by the Bay aren’t on NEA’s list either.
NEA names most centres by road and block, like “Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Blk 210”, with the nickname in brackets. Try the road, the block number, the area or the postal code. If it’s still not found, it isn’t one of NEA’s hawker centres.
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