Cook Islands public holidays 2026
Cook Islands has 11 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 25 Apr | Saturday rest day | Anzac Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Jun | Monday | King's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 3 Jul | Friday | Ra o te Ui Ariki | Nationwide |
| 4 Aug | Tuesday | Constitution Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Oct | Monday | Gospel Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 3 holidays
May
June 1 holiday
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Cook Islands in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Cook 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Anzac Day (25 Apr), 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and August the shortest with 20. A gap of 2 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 62 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 11, Cook Islands sits below the middle of the range, around the 37th 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 1 January to 4 January (New Year's Day). 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.