How this site works · Tue 27 Oct 2026
How we check the dates on Malaysia What's On
Every date on this site is checked against the organiser or an official source before it is published, and the check date is printed on the event page. This is how the calendar is built, and what the labels mean.
Malaysia What's On lists 241 events at launch: 122 with confirmed dates and the rest labelled tentative. The rule behind the split is simple. A date is only ever shown as confirmed when an official page, the organiser, a venue, a federation or a government calendar, has been opened and read, and it states the date and the venue. Ticketing pages count when they are the organiser's own channel. Nothing is copied from another listings site, and no date is inferred silently.
What the labels mean
Confirmed dates means the official source has published the date for this edition and we have read it. Tentative date means the organiser has not published yet: the window is built from the previous edition or from tradition, and it is labelled as tentative everywhere it appears, on the card, on the event page and in the calendar feeds. A tentative window is a planning guide, not a promise.
The public holiday spine
Malaysia's festival calendar hangs on its gazetted public holidays, and those come from the federal government holiday calendar published by the Prime Minister's Department. State holidays sit on top of the federal list, so the same festival can be a holiday in one state and a working day in the next. Where that matters, the event page says so.
What we do when dates move
Concerts in this market move: the My Chemical Romance show in Kuala Lumpur was rescheduled before it settled, and every serious calendar in the region has had to correct a date this year. We re-check listings on a rolling basis, and when an organiser changes a date, the listing changes with it and the check date on the page updates. If you spot a date that looks wrong, the contact page reaches the team that maintains the calendar.
The same approach runs across the family: Japan What's On, Thailand What's On, Hong Kong Happenings, Taiwan What's On and Macau What's On all work this way, because a calendar you cannot trust is just decoration.
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