Chile public holidays 2026
Chile has 16 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 4 Apr | Saturday rest day | Holy Saturday
Sábado Santo |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Día del Trabajo |
Nationwide |
| 21 May | Thursday | Navy Day
Día de las Glorias Navales |
Nationwide |
| 7 Jun | Sunday rest day | Battle of Arica
Asalto y Toma del Morro de Arica |
CL-AP |
| 21 Jun | Sunday rest day | National Day of Indigenous Peoples
Día Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas |
Nationwide |
| 29 Jun | Monday | Saint Peter and Saint Paul
San Pedro y San Pablo |
Nationwide |
| 16 Jul | Thursday | Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Virgen del Carmen |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Saturday rest day | Assumption of Mary
Asunción de la Virgen |
Nationwide |
| 18 Sep | Friday | National holiday
Fiestas Patrias |
Nationwide |
| 19 Sep | Saturday rest day | Army Day
Día de las Glorias del Ejército |
Nationwide |
| 12 Oct | Monday | Columbus Day
Día del Descubrimiento de Dos Mundos |
Nationwide |
| 31 Oct | Saturday rest day | Reformation Day
Día Nacional de las Iglesias Evangélicas y Protestantes |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Sunday rest day | All Saints Day
Día de Todos los Santos |
Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception
Inmaculada Concepción |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Navidad / Natividad del Señor |
Nationwide |
The 1 regional date above is observed only in part of the country and is left out of every national total on this page.
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March
April 2 holidays
May 2 holidays
June 2 holidays
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September 2 holidays
October 2 holidays
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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Chile in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Chile. 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.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: Holy Saturday (4 Apr), National Day of Indigenous Peoples (21 Jun), Assumption of Mary (15 Aug), Army Day (19 Sep), Reformation Day (31 Oct), All Saints Day (1 Nov). 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 May the shortest with 19. A gap of 3 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 16, Chile sits above the middle of the range, around the 87th 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 3 days, from 3 April to 5 April (Good Friday, Holy Saturday). 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.