Kiribati public holidays 2027
Kiribati has 16 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 251 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| 8 Mar | Monday | International Women's Day | Nationwide |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| 7 Apr | Wednesday | Health Day | Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day | Nationwide |
| 20 Jun | Sunday rest day | Police Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Jul | Saturday rest day | Gospel Day | Nationwide |
| 11 Jul | Sunday rest day | National Culture and Senior Citizens Day | Nationwide |
| 12 Jul | Monday | National Day | Nationwide |
| 13 Jul | Tuesday | Special Day | Nationwide |
| 6 Aug | Friday | National Youth Day
National Youth Dayy |
Nationwide |
| 5 Oct | Tuesday | World Teachers' Day | Nationwide |
| 10 Dec | Friday | Human Rights and Peace 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
March 3 holidays
April 1 holiday
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 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| 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 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
What the numbers say about Kiribati in 2027
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.
6 holidays land on a rest day this year: Labour Day (1 May), Police Day (20 Jun), Gospel Day (10 Jul), National Culture and Senior Citizens Day (11 Jul), 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.
June 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 250working days, so 2027gives you 1 more working day.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 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 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). There is also one bridge day: 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: Good Friday, Easter Monday, National Youth Day. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.