Bangladesh public holidays 2027
Bangladesh has 7 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Feb | Sunday rest day | International Mother Language Day
শহিদ দিবস ও আন্তর্জাতিক মাতৃভাষা দিবস |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Independence and National Day
স্বাধীনতা ও জাতীয় দিবস |
Nationwide |
| 14 Apr | Wednesday | Bengali New Year
নববর্ষ |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
মে দিবস |
Nationwide |
| 5 Aug | Thursday | July Mass Uprising Day
জুলাই গণঅভ্যুত্থান দিবস |
Nationwide |
| 16 Dec | Thursday | Victory Day
বিজয় দিবস |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
বড়দিন |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January
February 1 holiday
March 1 holiday
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July
August 1 holiday
September
October
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 4 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about Bangladesh in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Bangladesh. 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: International Mother Language Day (21 Feb), 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and February the shortest with 20. A gap of 2 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 63 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 255working days, so 2027gives you 2 more working days.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 7, Bangladesh sits below the middle of the range, around the 9th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 1 stretch of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 26 March to 28 March (Independence and National Day). 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 2027.