Bolivia public holidays 2027
Bolivia has 12 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 2 Feb | Tuesday | Feast of the Virgin of Candelaria
Fiesta de la Virgen de Candelaria |
Nationwide |
| 8 Feb | Monday | Carnival
Feriado por Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 9 Feb | Tuesday | Carnival
Feriado por Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Dia del trabajo |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| 21 Jun | Monday | Andean New Year
Año Nuevo Andino |
Nationwide |
| 2 Aug | Monday | Agrarian Reform Day
Día de la Revolución Agraria |
Nationwide |
| 6 Aug | Friday | Independence Day
Dia de la Patria |
Nationwide |
| 2 Nov | Tuesday | All Saints' Day
Todos Santos |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 3 holidays
March 1 holiday
April
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 2 holidays
September
October
November 1 holiday
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 136 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Bolivia in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Bolivia. 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and February the shortest with 17. A gap of 6 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 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 12, Bolivia 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 6 February to 9 February (Carnival). 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.
4 holidays change date compared with 2026: Carnival, Carnival, Good Friday, Corpus Christi. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.