Antigua and Barbuda public holidays 2027
Antigua and Barbuda has 12 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday | Nationwide |
| 2 Aug | Monday | Carnival Monday | Nationwide |
| 3 Aug | Tuesday | Carnival Tuesday | Nationwide |
| 9 Sep | Thursday | National Day of Prayer | Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 9 Dec | Thursday | National Heroes' Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
| 28 Dec | Tuesday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 2 holidays
June
July
August 2 holidays
September 1 holiday
October
November 1 holiday
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Antigua and Barbuda in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Antigua and Barbuda. 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.
1 holiday lands on a rest day this year: St. Stephen's Day (26 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and May the shortest with 19. A gap of 3 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 250working days, so 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 12, Antigua and Barbuda sits right in the middle of the range, around the 53rd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). There are also 3 bridge days: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2027.
9 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Whit Monday, Carnival Monday, Carnival Tuesday and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.