Curaçao public holidays 2027
Curaçao has 14 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 253 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Nieuwjaarsdag |
Nationwide |
| 8 Feb | Monday | Carnival Monday
Carnaval Maandag |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Goede Vrijdag |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Pasen |
Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Pasenmaandag |
Nationwide |
| 27 Apr | Tuesday | King's Day
Koningsdag |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Hemelvaartsdag |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pinksteren |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jul | Friday | Curaçao National Flag and Anthem Day
Curaçao Nationale Vlag en Volkslied Dag |
Nationwide |
| 10 Oct | Sunday rest day | Curaçao Day
Dag van Curaçao |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Kerstmis |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Tweede kerstdag |
Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Friday | New Year's Eve
Oudejaarsavond |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
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 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Curaçao in 2027
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.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (28 Mar), Labour Day (1 May), Pentecost (16 May), Curaçao Day (10 Oct), Christmas Day (25 Dec), 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.
June is the longest working month with 22 days, and February 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, Q1 is the leanest at 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working 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 14, Curaçao sits above the middle of the range, around the 75th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 4 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday). There are also 2 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 2027.
6 holidays change date compared with 2026: Carnival Monday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Pentecost. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.