Kiribati public holidays 2026
Kiribati has 16 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 250 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Sunday rest day | International Women's Day | Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 6 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 7 Apr | Tuesday | Health Day | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 20 Jun | Saturday rest day | Police Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Jul | Friday | Gospel Day | Nationwide |
| 11 Jul | Saturday rest day | National Culture and Senior Citizens Day | Nationwide |
| 12 Jul | Sunday rest day | National Day | Nationwide |
| 13 Jul | Monday | Special Day | Nationwide |
| 7 Aug | Friday | National Youth Day
National Youth Dayy |
Nationwide |
| 5 Oct | Monday | World Teachers' Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Dec | Thursday | Human Rights and Peace Day | Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Saturday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Boxing Day |
Nationwide |
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 1 holiday
April 3 holidays
May 1 holiday
June 1 holiday
July 4 holidays
August 1 holiday
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 3 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 152 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
What the numbers say about Kiribati in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Kiribati. 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: International Women's Day (8 Mar), Police Day (20 Jun), National Culture and Senior Citizens Day (11 Jul), National Day (12 Jul), 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 April 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, Q2 is the leanest at 61 working days (April, May, June).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 16, Kiribati sits above the middle of the range, around the 87th 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 5 days, from 3 April to 7 April (Good Friday, Easter Monday, Health Day). 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 2026.