Dominican Republic public holidays 2026
Dominican Republic has 13 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 249 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Día de Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Tuesday | Day of Kings
Día de Reyes |
Nationwide |
| 21 Jan | Wednesday | Our Lady of Altagracia
Día de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia |
Nationwide |
| 26 Jan | Monday | Duarte's Birthday
Día del Natalicio de Juan Pablo Duarte |
Nationwide |
| 27 Feb | Friday | Independence Day
Día de la Independencia de la República Dominicana |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Día del Trabajador |
Nationwide |
| 28 May | Thursday | Mother's Day
Día de las Madres |
Nationwide |
| 4 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| 16 Aug | Sunday rest day | Restoration Day
Día de la Restauración Dominicana |
Nationwide |
| 24 Sep | Thursday | Our Lady of Mercy
Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes |
Nationwide |
| 6 Nov | Friday | Constitution Day
Día de la Constitución |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 4 holidays
February 1 holiday
March
April 1 holiday
May 2 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 1 holiday
September 1 holiday
October
November 1 holiday
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 144 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 | 1,992 |
What the numbers say about Dominican Republic in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Dominican Republic. 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.
1 holiday lands on a rest day this year: Restoration Day (16 Aug). 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.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and January the shortest with 18. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 59 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 13, Dominican Republic sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 6 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 3 days, from 24 January to 26 January (Duarte's Birthday). There are also 5 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.