Jamaica public holidays 2027
Jamaica has 10 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 256 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Feb | Wednesday | Ash Wednesday | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 23 May | Sunday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 1 Aug | Sunday rest day | Emancipation Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Aug | Friday | Independence Day | Nationwide |
| 16 Oct | Saturday rest day | National Heroes Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 1 holiday
March 2 holidays
April
May 1 holiday
June
July
August 2 holidays
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| 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 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 5 | 256 | 2,048 |
What the numbers say about Jamaica in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Jamaica. 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: Labour Day (23 May), Emancipation Day (1 Aug), National Heroes Day (16 Oct), 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.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and February the shortest with 19. A gap of 4 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 254working days, so 2027gives you 2 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 10, Jamaica sits below the middle of the range, around the 25th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 3 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.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter Monday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.