Colombia public holidays 2027
Colombia has 19 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 245 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 11 Jan | Monday | Epiphany
Día de los Reyes Magos |
Nationwide |
| 22 Mar | Monday | Saint Joseph's Day
Día de San José |
Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Thursday | Maundy Thursday
Jueves Santo |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Primero de Mayo |
Nationwide |
| 10 May | Monday | Ascension Day
Ascensión del señor |
Nationwide |
| 31 May | Monday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| 7 Jun | Monday | Sacred Heart
Sagrado Corazón |
Nationwide |
| 5 Jul | Monday | Saint Peter and Saint Paul
San Pedro y San Pablo |
Nationwide |
| 12 Jul | Monday | Our Lady of Chiquinquirá Day
Día de la Virgen de Chiquinquirá |
Nationwide |
| 20 Jul | Tuesday | Declaration of Independence
Declaracion de la Independencia de Colombia |
Nationwide |
| 7 Aug | Saturday rest day | Battle of Boyacá
Batalla de Boyacá |
Nationwide |
| 16 Aug | Monday | Assumption of Mary
La Asunción |
Nationwide |
| 18 Oct | Monday | Columbus Day
Día de la Raza |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Saints’ Day
Dia de los Santos |
Nationwide |
| 15 Nov | Monday | Independence of Cartagena
Independencia de Cartagena |
Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Wednesday | Immaculate Conception
La Inmaculada Concepción |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 3 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
July 3 holidays
August 2 holidays
September
October 1 holiday
November 2 holidays
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 16 | 245 | 1,960 |
What the numbers say about Colombia in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Colombia. 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: Labour Day (1 May), Battle of Boyacá (7 Aug), 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and July 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, Q1 is the leanest at 59 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 242working days, so 2027gives you 3 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 19, Colombia sits above the middle of the range, around the 95th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 13 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 25 March to 28 March (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday). 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 2027.
13 holidays change date compared with 2026: Epiphany, Saint Joseph's Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.