Ecuador public holidays 2027
Ecuador has 11 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Año Nuevo |
Nationwide |
| 8 Feb | Monday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 9 Feb | Tuesday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Viernes Santo |
Nationwide |
| 30 Apr | Friday | International Workers' Day
Día del Trabajo |
Nationwide |
| 24 May | Monday | The Battle of Pichincha
Batalla de Pichincha |
Nationwide |
| 9 Aug | Monday | Declaration of Independence of Quito
Primer Grito de Independencia |
Nationwide |
| 8 Oct | Friday | Independence of Guayaquil
Independencia de Guayaquil |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Souls' Day
Día de los Difuntos, Día de Muertos |
Nationwide |
| 5 Nov | Friday | Independence of Cuenca
Independencia de Cuenca |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Día de Navidad |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 2 holidays
March 1 holiday
April 1 holiday
May 1 holiday
June
July
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November 2 holidays
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 144 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Ecuador in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Ecuador. 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: 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 February 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 60 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 251working days, so 2027comes out exactly the same length.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 11, Ecuador sits below the middle of the range, around the 38th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 9 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 6 February to 9 February (Carnival). See every long weekend in 2027.
9 holidays change date compared with 2026: Carnival, Carnival, Good Friday, International Workers' Day, The Battle of Pichincha, Declaration of Independence of Quito and more. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.