Curaçao public holidays 2026
Curaçao has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Nieuwjaarsdag |
Nationwide |
| 16 Feb | Monday | Carnival Monday
Carnaval Maandag |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Goede Vrijdag |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Pasen |
Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday
Pasenmaandag |
Nationwide |
| 27 Apr | Monday | King's Day
Koningsdag |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 14 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Hemelvaartsdag |
Nationwide |
| 24 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pinksteren |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jul | Thursday | Curaçao National Flag and Anthem Day
Curaçao Nationale Vlag en Volkslied Dag |
Nationwide |
| 10 Oct | Saturday rest day | Curaçao Day
Dag van Curaçao |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Kerstmis |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Tweede kerstdag |
Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Thursday | New Year's Eve
Oudejaarsavond |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March
April 4 holidays
May 3 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| 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 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Curaçao in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Curaçao. 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.
4 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Pentecost (24 May), Curaçao Day (10 Oct), 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 May 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, Q2 is the leanest at 60 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Curaçao sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th 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 3 April to 6 April (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). There are also 3 bridge days: 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.