Armenia public holidays 2027
Armenia has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Ամանոր |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | New Year's Day
Ամանոր |
Nationwide |
| 5 Jan | Tuesday | Christmas Day
Սուրբ Ծնունդ |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Christmas Day
Սուրբ Ծնունդ |
Nationwide |
| 28 Jan | Thursday | Army Day
Բանակի օր |
Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Monday | Women's Day
Կանանց տոն |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Ամանոր |
Nationwide |
| 24 Apr | Saturday rest day | Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Աշխատանքի օր |
Nationwide |
| 9 May | Sunday rest day | Victory and Peace Day
Հաղթանակի և Խաղաղության տոն |
Nationwide |
| 28 May | Friday | Republic Day
Հանրապետության օր |
Nationwide |
| 5 Jul | Monday | Constitution Day
Սահմանադրության օր |
Nationwide |
| 21 Sep | Tuesday | Independence Day
Անկախության օր |
Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Friday | New Year's Eve
Ամանոր |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 5 holidays
February
March 2 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 3 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August
September 1 holiday
October
November
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 136 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Armenia in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Armenia. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (2 Jan), Easter Sunday (28 Mar), Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (24 Apr), Labour Day (1 May), Victory and Peace Day (9 May). 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and January the shortest with 17. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 59 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working days, so 2027gives you 1 more 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 14, Armenia sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 4 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). 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.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Easter Sunday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.