Kazakhstan public holidays 2027
Kazakhstan has 13 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
Жаңа жыл |
Nationwide |
| 2 Jan | Saturday rest day | New Year's Day
Жаңа жыл |
Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Monday | International Women's Day
Халықаралық әйелдер күні |
Nationwide |
| 21 Mar | Sunday rest day | Nauryz Meyramy
Наурыз мейрамы |
Nationwide |
| 22 Mar | Monday | Nauryz Meyramy
Наурыз мейрамы |
Nationwide |
| 23 Mar | Tuesday | Nauryz Meyramy
Наурыз мейрамы |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Kazakhstan People's Unity Day
Қазақстан халқының |
Nationwide |
| 7 May | Friday | Defender of the Fatherland Day
Отан Қорғаушы күні |
Nationwide |
| 9 May | Sunday rest day | Great Patriotic War Against Fascism Victory Day
Жеңіс күні |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jul | Tuesday | Capital City Day
Астана күні |
Nationwide |
| 30 Aug | Monday | Constitution Day
Конституция күні |
Nationwide |
| 25 Oct | Monday | Republic Day
Республика күні |
Nationwide |
| 16 Dec | Thursday | Independence Day
Тәуелсіздік күні |
Nationwide |
2027 at a glance
January 2 holidays
February
March 4 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June
July 1 holiday
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 1 holiday
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 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
What the numbers say about Kazakhstan in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Kazakhstan. 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.
4 holidays land on a rest day this year: New Year's Day (2 Jan), Nauryz Meyramy (21 Mar), Kazakhstan People's Unity Day (1 May), Great Patriotic War Against Fascism Victory 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 October the shortest with 20. A gap of 2 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 fewer 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 13, Kazakhstan sits above the middle of the range, around the 64th 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 20 March to 23 March (Nauryz Meyramy). There are also 2 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 2027.
3 holidays change date compared with 2026: New Year's Day, Nauryz Meyramy, Nauryz Meyramy. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.