Dominican Republic public holidays 2027
Dominican Republic has 13 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 252 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Día de Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Day of Kings
Día de Reyes |
Nationwide |
| 21 Jan | Thursday | Our Lady of Altagracia
Día de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia |
Nationwide |
| 26 Jan | Tuesday | Duarte's Birthday
Día del Natalicio de Juan Pablo Duarte |
Nationwide |
| 27 Feb | Saturday rest day | Independence Day
Día de la Independencia de la República Dominicana |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Día del Trabajador |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| 28 May | Friday | Mother's Day
Día de las Madres |
Nationwide |
| 16 Aug | Monday | Restoration Day
Día de la Restauración Dominicana |
Nationwide |
| 24 Sep | Friday | Our Lady of Mercy
Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes |
Nationwide |
| 6 Nov | Saturday rest day | Constitution Day
Día de la Constitución |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 4 holidays
February 1 holiday
March 1 holiday
April
May 3 holidays
June
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 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 136 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Dominican Republic in 2027
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.
4 holidays land on a rest day this year: Independence Day (27 Feb), Labour Day (1 May), Constitution Day (6 Nov), 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 January the shortest with 17. A gap of 6 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).
2026 had 249working days, so 2027gives you 3 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 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 5 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 27 May to 30 May (Corpus Christi, Mother's Day). 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.
2 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Corpus Christi. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.