British Virgin Islands public holidays 2026
British Virgin Islands has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 247 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 9 Mar | Monday | Lavity Stoutt's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 25 May | Monday | Whit Monday | Nationwide |
| 12 Jun | Friday | Sovereign's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Wednesday | Virgin Islands Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Aug | Monday | Emancipation Monday | Nationwide |
| 4 Aug | Tuesday | Emancipation Tuesday | Nationwide |
| 5 Aug | Wednesday | Emancipation Wednesday | Nationwide |
| 19 Oct | Monday | Heroes and Foreparents Day | Nationwide |
| 23 Nov | Monday | The 1949 Great March and Restoration Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 28 Dec | Monday | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 1 holiday
April 2 holidays
May 1 holiday
June 1 holiday
July 1 holiday
August 3 holidays
September
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 14 | 247 | 1,976 |
What the numbers say about British Virgin Islands in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in British Virgin Islands. 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.
July is the longest working month with 22 days, and August the shortest with 18. 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 61 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, British Virgin Islands sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 8 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 1 August to 5 August (Emancipation Monday, Emancipation Tuesday, Emancipation Wednesday). There is also one bridge day: 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.