Guernsey public holidays 2027
Guernsey has 9 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 | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 3 May | Monday | Early May Bank Holiday | Nationwide |
| 9 May | Sunday rest day | Liberation Day | Nationwide |
| 31 May | Monday | Spring Bank Holiday | Nationwide |
| 30 Aug | Monday | Summer Bank Holiday | Nationwide |
| 27 Dec | Monday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 28 Dec | Tuesday | Boxing Day
St. Stephen's Day |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June
July
August 1 holiday
September
October
November
December 2 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 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 | 2,024 |
What the numbers say about Guernsey in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Guernsey. 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: Liberation Day (9 May). 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.
April is the longest working month with 22 days, and May 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 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 253working 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 9, Guernsey sits below the middle of the range, around the 17th 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 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). See every long weekend in 2027.
6 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Early May Bank Holiday, Spring Bank Holiday, Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.