Cuba public holidays 2026
Cuba has 9 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 255 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | Triumph of the Revolution
Triunfo de la Revolución |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Friday | Victory of Fidel Castro
Día de Victoria de las Fuerzas Armadas |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Día de los trabajadores |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jul | Saturday rest day | Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison
Conmemoración del asalto a Moncada |
Nationwide |
| 26 Jul | Sunday rest day | Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison
Día de la Rebeldía Nacional |
Nationwide |
| 27 Jul | Monday | Day after the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison
Conmemoración del asalto a Moncada |
Nationwide |
| 10 Oct | Saturday rest day | Independence Day
Día de la Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July 3 holidays
August
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 1 holiday
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 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 6 | 255 | 2,040 |
What the numbers say about Cuba in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Cuba. 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: Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison (25 Jul), Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison (26 Jul), Independence Day (10 Oct). 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 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 9, Cuba sits below the middle of the range, around the 17th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 1 January to 4 January (Triumph of the Revolution, Victory of Fidel Castro). See every long weekend in 2026.