Caribbean Netherlands public holidays 2027
Caribbean Netherlands has 11 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 255 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nieuwjaarsdag |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Goede Vrijdag |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Pasen |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Paasmaandag |
Nationwide |
| 27 Apr | Tuesday | King's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Friday | Rincon Day | BQ-BO |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Dag van de Arbeid |
Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Hemelvaartsdag |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pinksteren |
Nationwide |
| 1 Jul | Thursday | Emancipation Day | BQ-SE |
| 2 Aug | Monday | Carnival Monday | Nationwide |
| 6 Sep | Monday | Bonaire Flag Day
Vlagdag bonaire |
BQ-BO |
| 16 Nov | Tuesday | Statia Day | BQ-SE |
| 3 Dec | Friday | Saba Day | BQ-SA |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Kerstmis |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Second Day of Christmas |
Nationwide |
The 5 regional dates above are observed only in part of the country and are left out of every national total on this page.
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 3 holidays
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 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 6 | 255 | 2,040 |
What the numbers say about Caribbean Netherlands in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Caribbean Netherlands. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (28 Mar), Labour Day (1 May), Pentecost (16 May), Christmas Day (25 Dec), 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and May 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).
2026 had 253working 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 11, Caribbean Netherlands sits below the middle of the range, around the 38th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 3 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (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 2027.
6 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Carnival Monday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.