Costa Rica public holidays 2027
Costa Rica 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
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 25 Mar | Thursday | Maundy Thursday
Jueves Santo |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 11 Apr | Sunday rest day | Juan Santamaría Day
Día de Juan Santamaría |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Día Internacional del Trabajo |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jul | Sunday rest day | Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica
Anexión del Partido de Nicoya a Costa Rica |
Nationwide |
| 2 Aug | Monday | Feast of Our Lady of the Angels
Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Mother's Day
Día de la Madre |
Nationwide |
| 15 Sep | Wednesday | Independence Day
Día de la Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 1 Dec | Wednesday | Army Abolition Day
Día de la Abolición del Ejército |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July 1 holiday
August 2 holidays
September 1 holiday
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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 6 | 255 | 2,040 |
What the numbers say about Costa Rica in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Costa Rica. 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: Juan Santamaría Day (11 Apr), Labour Day (1 May), Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica (25 Jul), Mother's Day (15 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 February 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 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 254working days, so 2027gives you 1 more working day.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, Costa Rica 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 25 March to 28 March (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday). See every long weekend in 2027.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.