Aruba public holidays 2026
Aruba has 12 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Nieuwjaarsdag |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jan | Sunday rest day | Betico Croes Day
Dag van Betico Croes |
Nationwide |
| 16 Feb | Monday | Carnival Monday
Carnaval Maandag |
Nationwide |
| 18 Mar | Wednesday | National Anthem and Flag Day
Dag van het Volkslied en de Vlag |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Goede Vrijdag |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Eerste Paasdag |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Tweede Paasedag |
Nationwide |
| 27 Apr | Monday | King's Day
Koningsdag |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Dag van de Arbeid |
Nationwide |
| 14 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Hemelvaartsdag |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Eerste Kerstdag |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Tweede Kerstdag |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February 1 holiday
March 1 holiday
April 4 holidays
May 2 holidays
June
July
August
September
October
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Aruba in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Aruba. 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: Betico Croes Day (25 Jan), Easter Sunday (5 Apr), 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.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and May the shortest with 19. A gap of 4 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q2 is the leanest at 60 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 12, Aruba sits right in the middle of the range, around the 53rd percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 3 April to 6 April (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). There are also 2 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 2026.