Falkland Islands public holidays 2027
Falkland Islands has 11 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 | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 14 Jun | Monday | Liberation Day | Nationwide |
| 4 Oct | Monday | Peat Cutting Day | Nationwide |
| 15 Nov | Monday | King's Birthday | Nationwide |
| 8 Dec | Wednesday | Battle Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
| 27 Dec | Monday | Christmas Holiday | Nationwide |
| 30 Dec | Thursday | Government Holiday | Nationwide |
| 31 Dec | Friday | Government Holiday | Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 1 holiday
April
May
June 1 holiday
July
August
September
October 1 holiday
November 1 holiday
December 6 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 152 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Falkland Islands in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Falkland Islands. 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.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: 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.
March is the longest working month with 22 days, and December 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, Q4 is the leanest at 60 working days (October, November, December).
2026 had 252working 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, Falkland Islands sits below the middle of the range, around the 38th 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 1 January to 3 January (New Year's Day). See every long weekend in 2027.
5 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Liberation Day, Peat Cutting Day, King's Birthday, Government Holiday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.