Cuba public holidays 2027
Cuba has 9 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 257 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | Triumph of the Revolution
Triunfo de la Revolución |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | Victory of Fidel Castro
Día de Victoria de las Fuerzas Armadas |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Día de los trabajadores |
Nationwide |
| 25 Jul | Sunday rest day | Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison
Conmemoración del asalto a Moncada |
Nationwide |
| 26 Jul | Monday | Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison
Día de la Rebeldía Nacional |
Nationwide |
| 27 Jul | Tuesday | Day after the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison
Conmemoración del asalto a Moncada |
Nationwide |
| 10 Oct | Sunday rest day | Independence Day
Día de la Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 1 holiday
April
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 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 4 | 257 | 2,056 |
What the numbers say about Cuba in 2027
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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Victory of Fidel Castro (2 Jan), Labour Day (1 May), Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison (25 Jul), Independence Day (10 Oct), 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and July the shortest with 20. 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 62 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 255working days, so 2027gives you 2 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 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 3 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 24 July to 27 July (Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison, Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison, Day after the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison). See every long weekend in 2027.
1 holiday changes date compared with 2026: Good Friday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.