Haiti public holidays 2026
Haiti has 20 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 246 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Jour de l'an |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Friday | Ancestry Day
Jour des Aieux |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Tuesday | Epiphany
Le Jour des Rois |
Nationwide |
| 16 Feb | Monday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 17 Feb | Tuesday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 18 Feb | Wednesday | Ash Wednesday
Mercredi Des Cendres |
Nationwide |
| 2 Apr | Thursday | Maundy Thursday
Jeudi saint |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Vendredi saint |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Pâques |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour and Agriculture Day
Fête du Travail / Fête des Travailleurs |
Nationwide |
| 14 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Ascension |
Nationwide |
| 18 May | Monday | Flag and Universities Day
Jour du Drapeau et de l'Université |
Nationwide |
| 4 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi
Fête-Dieu |
Nationwide |
| 15 Aug | Saturday rest day | Assumption of Mary
L'Assomption de Marie |
Nationwide |
| 17 Oct | Saturday rest day | Dessalines Day
Anniversaire de la mort de Dessalines |
Nationwide |
| 1 Nov | Sunday rest day | All Saints Day
La Toussaint |
Nationwide |
| 2 Nov | Monday | All Souls' Day
Jour des Morts |
Nationwide |
| 18 Nov | Wednesday | Battle of Vertières Day
Vertières |
Nationwide |
| 5 Dec | Saturday rest day | Discovery Day
Découverte d'Haïti |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Noël |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 3 holidays
February 3 holidays
March
April 3 holidays
May 3 holidays
June 1 holiday
July
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November 3 holidays
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 136 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 144 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 15 | 246 | 1,968 |
What the numbers say about Haiti in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Haiti. 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.
5 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Assumption of Mary (15 Aug), Dessalines Day (17 Oct), All Saints Day (1 Nov), Discovery Day (5 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.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and February 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 58 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 20, Haiti sits above the middle of the range, around the 96th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 7 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 5 days, from 14 February to 18 February (Carnival, Ash Wednesday). There are also 3 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.