Angola public holidays 2027
Angola has 16 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 248 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Dia de Ano Novo |
Nationwide |
| 4 Feb | Thursday | Liberation Day
Dia da Libertação |
Nationwide |
| 5 Feb | Friday | Liberation Day (Ponte)
Dia da Libertação (Ponte) |
Nationwide |
| 8 Feb | Monday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Monday | International Women's Day
Dia Internacional da Mulher |
Nationwide |
| 22 Mar | Monday | Day of the Liberation of Southern Africa (Ponte)
Dia da Libertação da África Austral (Ponte) |
Nationwide |
| 23 Mar | Tuesday | Day of the Liberation of Southern Africa
Dia da Libertação da África Austral |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Sexta Feira Santa |
Nationwide |
| 4 Apr | Sunday rest day | Peace Day
Dia da Paz |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Dia do Trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| 17 Sep | Friday | National Heroes' Day
Dia do Fundador da Nação e do Herói Nacional |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Souls' Day (Ponte)
Dia de Finados (Ponte) |
Nationwide |
| 2 Nov | Tuesday | All Souls' Day
Dia de Finados |
Nationwide |
| 11 Nov | Thursday | Independence Day
Dia da Independência |
Nationwide |
| 12 Nov | Friday | Independence Day (Ponte)
Dia da Independência (Ponte) |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Dia de Natal |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 3 holidays
March 4 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July
August
September 1 holiday
October
November 4 holidays
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 136 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 152 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 144 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 13 | 248 | 1,984 |
What the numbers say about Angola in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Angola. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
3 holidays land on a rest day this year: Peace Day (4 Apr), Labour Day (1 May), Christmas Day (25 Dec). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and February the shortest with 17. A gap of 6 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 56 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 249working days, so 2027gives you 1 fewer working day.Plans copied over from last year without adjusting for that difference will be slightly off from January onwards.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 16, Angola sits above the middle of the range, around the 87th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 8 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 4 February to 8 February (Liberation Day, Liberation Day (Ponte), Carnival). See every long weekend in 2027.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: Carnival, Good Friday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.