Belize public holidays 2026
Belize has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Jan | Thursday | George Price Day | Nationwide |
| 9 Mar | Monday | National Heroes and Benefactors Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 4 Apr | Saturday rest day | Holy Saturday | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Aug | Saturday rest day | Emancipation Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Sep | Thursday | Saint George's Caye Day | Nationwide |
| 21 Sep | Monday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 12 Oct | Monday | Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day | Nationwide |
| 19 Nov | Thursday | Garifuna Settlement Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | Boxing Day | Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April 3 holidays
May 1 holiday
June
July
August 1 holiday
September 2 holidays
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Belize in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Belize. 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: Holy Saturday (4 Apr), Emancipation Day (1 Aug), Boxing 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 November the shortest with 20. 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).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Belize sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th 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 3 April to 6 April (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Monday). There are also 4 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.